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new book alert Issue no. 3 | 2022

Race Manifest: Revisiting the Science and

Sociology of Racism

Dr Nur Dayana Mohamed Ariffin’s new book
presents provocative inquiries on the
sentimental, emotional, social, and scientific
ways racism manifested in Nusantara during the
colonial times. Focusing on three countries:
Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, Race
Manifest: Colonial Administration and
Racialisation in Nusantara is published by
University Malaya Press. Dr Dayana analyzes how race was constructed
between the nineteenth to the twentieth century through census
documentation, curation of museum exhibits, eugenics, and ethnological and
administrative records. The book also looks at the exchange between external
and internal factors that perpetuated racism, arguing that native ideas also
contributed to racial construct and the process of “othering” of individuals or
groups beyond their own respective communities. The book is a part of Dr
Dayana’s study on race, colonial science, and social hierarchies. It presents a
subtle but important way history merges with anthropology, geography, and
biology.

Methodological Approaches in Physical

Geography

Firuza Begham Mustafa is an Associate Professor at
the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences, University Malaya. She specialized
in agriculture geography, aquaculture and
geophysical fields. Methodological Approaches in
Physical Geography published by Springer Nature
Switzerland (2022) is her latest book.

This book covers the methodologies for the study of all aspects of physical
geography: biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. As a
comprehensive textbook, it consists of detailed research methodology for physical
geography research including selected case studies from Asia. These case studies
cover methodological approaches for hydrology, climatology and geomorphology
including the discovery of the best methods for exploring and assessing mysterious
physical phenomena using diverse methodologies.
The book explores and explains the principal concept, basic method, optional method, with detailed description of
each method, and outlines the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of each. It also discusses the techniques of
data selection, data acquisition, method of analysis, data interpretation and data analysis techniques with a specific
focus on deterministic modeling, geography techniques, geospatial modeling with Geographic Information System
(GIS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Automated machine techniques and a combination of
statistical analysis. The book provides an opportunity to critically examine the conceptualization and identification of
the field in geographical research, and how digital media has not only expanded the scope of what constitutes the field
but has redefined the field in itself along with the practices of observing, knowing, and analyzing the real world.

The book can be accessed at this link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07113-3

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