Whose Cultural Memory?: Disruptive Tactics by the Creative Collectives in George Town, Malaysia

Zaki Habibi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46291-8

Whose Cultural Memory? Disruptive Tactics by the Creative Collectives in George Town, Malaysia

Zaki Habibi

Media and Communication Studies

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Abstract

This chapter examines everyday lived experiences of individuals and groups from various creative collectives in George Town, Malaysia. The process of these articulations is explored through their everyday dwelling in this city, especially in responding to the so-called official narrative of creative city within heritage context. This chapter aims to understand how the everyday tactics of creative collectives disrupt, or counteract, official narratives and top down creative branding of George Town as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The three analytical areas of which this alternative narrative is constructed are disrupting memories, politics of exclusion-inclusion, and formation of organic space. All these are articulated in their identities as artists, craft persons, and creative collectives organically formed from below.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia
Editors	Xin Gu, Michael Kho Lim, Justin O'Connor
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	8
Pages	113-128
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-46291-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-46290-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46291-8
Publication status	Published - 2020 Nov 21

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Media Studies
Cultural Studies
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

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creative city
Asian studies
Southeast Asia
urban culture
urban creativity
cultural memory

UN SDGs

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Whose Cultural Memory? Disruptive Tactics by the Creative Collectives in George Town, Malaysia. / Habibi, Zaki.
Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia. ed. / Xin Gu; Michael Kho Lim; Justin O'Connor. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 113-128.

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