mantareads’s Reviews > Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore > Status Update
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The topics are interesting, and perhaps even necessary, but the self-important, excessively verbose prose is nauseating. I won't even call it "academic", because that would imply this is the standard "academic prose" should aspire too. It is not. This is unnecessarily bloated, pretentious, name-dropping writing in desperate need of better editors.
— Apr 18, 2021 11:05PM
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I am appalled and astonished at Lai Ah Eng's essay on kopitiams. Full of sweeping generalisations. There isn't even any observational or ethnographic evidence cited for the kind of comments she makes about these spaces. Like that also can?
— Apr 18, 2021 11:27PM
mantareads
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It seems like an occupational hazard of sociologists and cultural geographers, this obsessive Name-dropping (2021), to make important-sounding word salads that don't really say very much.
— Apr 14, 2021 09:51PM
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I recognise the necessity of such a book, but the excessively academic verbiage is really off putting
— Apr 14, 2021 12:56AM
