David C L Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 104681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C L Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM D C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3566-5486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is AI the solution to the problems that make higher education “ill” in the first place? Towards a technology-agnostic, future-proof approach
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed in higher education at an unprecedented scale and pace as a silver bullet for the “sick” higher education system. This opinion paper examines whether and to what extent AI is the solution to the problems that make higher education purportedly outmoded and/or dysfunctional in the first place. It begins by identifying two persistent challenges confronting the sector: uneven quality and enduring inequit…
Southeast Asia as a decolonial method of storytelling and epistemic intervention: A reading of Joshua Kam's How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World (2020)
On Art and Artifice: A Conversation with Tan Twan Eng
Visualizing the Invisible: Social Constructions of Straight Identified Men Who Have Sex With Transsexuals and Feminized Gay Men On/Off Malaysian Film
nAbstract \nThis article examines an “invisible” group of Malaysian men who—although straight identified and gender socialized to eroticize and have sexual relations with natural-born females—also secretly have sex with transsexuals and/or feminized gay men, incidentally or occasionally. Specifically, the article looks at how these otherwise heteronormative men are socially constructed in 2 forms of social texts, namely, Malaysian films and inter…
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural interpretation and Social Intervention
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia and the social practices and ideologies that films either represent or oppose.It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation.A unique feature of the book i…
Unity lost? Reframing ethnic relations in Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour
This essay reads Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour (1993) against the "lost" (forgotten, erased) but recently recuperated histories of ethnic unity in Malaysia to challenge the state's account which paints the past as a time of disunity and animosity between the ethnicities essentialized as "races". Specifically, I reframe the racial violence of "May 13, 1969" at the heart of Green is the Colour to argue that the novel gives the event a much m…
Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies
Overcoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the…
Cruising Mat Motor: Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit
This paper examines the construction of working‐class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working‐class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into acc…
The path of the imagination: A conversation with K S Maniam
(2004). The path of the imagination: A conversation with K S Maniam. Wasafiri: Vol. 19, No. 41, pp. 40-45
The Living God in the Structures of Philippine Reality
Visualizing the Invisible: Social Constructions of Straight Identified Men Who Have Sex With Transsexuals and Feminized Gay Men On/Off Malaysian Film
nAbstract \nThis article examines an “invisible” group of Malaysian men who—although straight identified and gender socialized to eroticize and have sexual relations with natural-born females—also secretly have sex with transsexuals and/or feminized gay men, incidentally or occasionally. Specifically, the article looks at how these otherwise heteronormative men are socially constructed in 2 forms of social texts, namely, Malaysian films and inter…
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural interpretation and Social Intervention
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia and the social practices and ideologies that films either represent or oppose.It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation.A unique feature of the book i…
Unity lost? Reframing ethnic relations in Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour
This essay reads Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour (1993) against the "lost" (forgotten, erased) but recently recuperated histories of ethnic unity in Malaysia to challenge the state's account which paints the past as a time of disunity and animosity between the ethnicities essentialized as "races". Specifically, I reframe the racial violence of "May 13, 1969" at the heart of Green is the Colour to argue that the novel gives the event a much m…
Cruising Mat Motor: Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit
This paper examines the construction of working‐class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working‐class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into acc…
The Living God in the Structures of Philippine Reality
The path of the imagination: A conversation with K S Maniam
(2004). The path of the imagination: A conversation with K S Maniam. Wasafiri: Vol. 19, No. 41, pp. 40-45
Cruising Mat Motor: Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit
This paper examines the construction of working‐class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working‐class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into acc…
Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies
Overcoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the…
Unity lost? Reframing ethnic relations in Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour
This essay reads Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour (1993) against the "lost" (forgotten, erased) but recently recuperated histories of ethnic unity in Malaysia to challenge the state's account which paints the past as a time of disunity and animosity between the ethnicities essentialized as "races". Specifically, I reframe the racial violence of "May 13, 1969" at the heart of Green is the Colour to argue that the novel gives the event a much m…
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural interpretation and Social Intervention
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia and the social practices and ideologies that films either represent or oppose.It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation.A unique feature of the book i…
Visualizing the Invisible: Social Constructions of Straight Identified Men Who Have Sex With Transsexuals and Feminized Gay Men On/Off Malaysian Film
nAbstract \nThis article examines an “invisible” group of Malaysian men who—although straight identified and gender socialized to eroticize and have sexual relations with natural-born females—also secretly have sex with transsexuals and/or feminized gay men, incidentally or occasionally. Specifically, the article looks at how these otherwise heteronormative men are socially constructed in 2 forms of social texts, namely, Malaysian films and inter…
On Art and Artifice: A Conversation with Tan Twan Eng
Southeast Asia as a decolonial method of storytelling and epistemic intervention: A reading of Joshua Kam's How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World (2020)
Is AI the solution to the problems that make higher education “ill” in the first place? Towards a technology-agnostic, future-proof approach
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed in higher education at an unprecedented scale and pace as a silver bullet for the “sick” higher education system. This opinion paper examines whether and to what extent AI is the solution to the problems that make higher education purportedly outmoded and/or dysfunctional in the first place. It begins by identifying two persistent challenges confronting the sector: uneven quality and enduring inequit…
Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Conversation (2 works)