Author: Asmus Rungby

Asmus Rungby is a Southeast Asianist and Anthropologist focused on issues of governance, political economy and democracy in Southeast Asia broadly and Malaysian Borneo specifically. His work combines deep ethnographic commitments to urban communities and theoretical analysis grounded in critical theory, political economy and indigenous intellectual traditions. His work covers a variety of issues of politics, environment, and conceptual issues surrounding the interfacing of communities and governance, including tourism, energy management, art advocacy, animal protection, digital citizenship and democracy.  

Asmus Rungby

Against making sense: Appreciating absurd roundabouts in Malaysian Borneo

April, 2024 / By Asmus Rungby

In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise […]