SCHOOL OF THE ARTS   |  UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA

DR. JOHAN AWANG BIN OTHMAN

Senior Lecturer

Johan Awang Bin Othman currently explores topics ranging from music and cultural studies: “The Soundscape of ‘Bermulanya Di Sini... Kedah Tua’!” (2019), “Inscribing the Rohingya By Way Of Writing And Reading Its Particular/Universal Movement” (2018), “Images and Historiography As Paradox of Marking and Sustaining the Voice of the Subaltern: The Rani of Sirmur, the Suicide and the Mutant” (2017), “Performing a Negotiation of the Borders between the Academia, Industry and Community” (2016), “The Body as Agency of Imaginary Gendering: Re-imagining Medea’s Gender Formation and Positioning” Create your own automated PDFs with Jotform PDF Editor- It’s free 1 (ICHSC 2011), and “Cultural Decentralization Within A Post-Colonial Territory: Movements in Malaysia’s Musical Culture”(Wacana Seni 2002). He currently teaches music and art theory in the School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia since 1999.

Education

  • PhD

Areas of Expertise

Art History & Theory

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Cultural Studies
  • Art Theory
  • Gender Studies
  • Contemporary Music

RESEARCH TOPICS

  • Traditional Malay Kite and Marxist context
  • Traditional Malay Boat and Boat within context of ethnocentrism.

USM EXPERTS

SPORTLIGHTS

  • PUBLICATIONS



    1. "Productivity of the Common as Property in the Context of the Symbolic Propertization of Indigenous Knowledge: The Biopolitics of Traditional Malay Wau Bulan and Wau Kucing Kelantanese Kite Making as State Symbolic Property" (Rethinking Marxism, Routledge, 2023)

    2. “Overcoming Adversity and Challenging Ethnocentric Perceptions: An Ethnographic Case Study of Traditional Malay Boat Making in Terengganu“ (KEMANUSIAAN Vol. 30, Supp. 1, (2023), 87–101)



  • COLLABORATION



    “Malam Takdir” Malay Opera. Colaboration with Five Arts

  • MASTER/PHD PROJECT SUPERVISED



    1. GAO JUAN - An Analysis of the Characters of Mimi and Musetta in Puccini’s Opera the Career of the Artist from the Perspective of Feminism (PhD).

    2. ZHOU XIAOSHAN- Research on the Image Expression of Music Composition Techniques (PhD)

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