Journal Articles
Click on title for article abstracts. Due to copyright agreements, my publications are not uploaded here. Please email me for PDF offprints at [email protected]
Click on title for article abstracts. Due to copyright agreements, my publications are not uploaded here. Please email me for PDF offprints at [email protected]
- With Terence Chong, Ministering to the Middle: Christian Megachurches and Minoritarian Politics in Southeast Asia, Politics and Religion, online first 20 April 2022
- With Andrew Lee, Migrant Worker Recreational Centres, Accidental Diversities and New Relationalities in Singapore, Urban Studies, online first 1 April 2022
- With Terence Chong, Beyond Mall Christianity: Megachurches Navigating Southeast Asian Urbanisms, Pacific Affairs, 2022, 95 (1): 5-26
- With Terence Chong, 'Chinese Privilege' as Shortcut in Singapore: A Rejoinder, Asian Ethnicity, 2022, 23 (3): 630-635
- Affective Identities and the Recontextualisation of Elite Schools for Globalisation in Singapore, Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020, 18 (2): 208-220
- Super-diversity and the Bio-politics of Migrant Worker Exclusion in Singapore, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2019, 26 (3): 356-73
- Family Justice, ‘Asian Values’ and the Politics of Ambivalence in Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2018, 46 (4-5): 467-83
- Secular Space, Spiritual Community and the Hybrid Urbanisms of Christianity in Hong Kong and Singapore, International Sociology, 2016, 31 (4): 432-49
- With Peter van der Veer, Introduction: The Sacred and the Urban in Asia, International Sociology, 2016, 31 (4): 367-74
- With Tim Bunnell and Peter van der Veer, Doing Asian Cities: Introduction, Ethnography, 2015, 16 (3): 287-94
- Colonialism, Neopatrimonialism and Hybrid State Formation, Political Power and Social Theory, 2015, 28: 165-90
- Singapore, the State, and Decolonial Spatiality, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, 2015, 27 (2): 215-26
- Elite Schools, Postcolonial Chineseness and Hegemonic Masculinities in Singapore, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015, 36 (1): 137-55 (Republished in Jane Kenway and Aaron Koh (eds.), New Sociologies of Elite Schooling, London: Routledge, 2017)
- From History to Heritage: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Remaking of Malacca, Penang, and Singapore, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2014, 2 (1): 79-101
- Walking the Global City: The Politics of Rhythm and Memory in Singapore, Space and Culture, 2014, 17 (1): 16-28
- Multicultural Carnivals and the Politics of the Spectacle in Global Singapore, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2013, 14 (2): 228-51
- With Tim Bunnell, Introduction: Recentering Southeast Asian Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2013, 37 (3): 825-33
- Oriental Purity: Postcolonial Discomfort and Asian Values, positions: east asia cultures critique, 2012, 20 (4): 1041-66
- With Tim Bunnell, Chee Kien Lai, and C.P. Pow, Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination, Urban Studies, 2012, 49 (3): 2785-93
- State Carnivals and the Subvention of Multiculturalism in Singapore, British Journal of Sociology, 2011, 62 (1): 1-23
- Unofficial Contentions: The Postcoloniality of Straits Chinese Political Discourse in the Straits Settlements Legislative Council, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, 41 (3): 483-507
- State and Social Christianity in Postcolonial Singapore, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2010, 25 (1): 54-89
- Capital and the Transfiguring Monumentality of Raffles Hotel, Mobilities, 2010, 5 (2): 177-95
- Chinese Religion and the Challenge of Modernity in Malaysia and Singapore: Syncretism, Hybridization and Transfiguration, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2009, 37 (1): 107-37
- Postcolonial Disorientations: Colonial Ethnography and the Vectors of the Philippine Nation in the Imperial Frontier, Postcolonial Studies, 2008, 11 (3): 259-76
- Resistance and the Contradictory Rationalities of State Formation in British Malaya and the American Philippines, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 2008, 171-2: 56-73 (in French; in English in George Steinmetz (ed.), Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013, pp. 465-88)
- From Colonial Pluralism to Postcolonial Multiculturalism: Race, State Formation and the Question of Cultural Diversity in Malaysia and Singapore, Sociology Compass, 2008, 2 (1): 232-52
- Imperialism and ‘Medieval’ Natives: The Malay Image in Anglo-American Travelogues and Colonialism in Malaya and the Philippines, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2007, 10 (3): 323-41
- States of Ethnography: Colonialism, Resistance and Cultural Transcription in Malaya and the Philippines, 1890s-1930s, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2007, 49 (1): 109-42
- The Politics of the Environment in Singapore? Lessons from a ‘Strange’ Case, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2001, 29 (1): 9-34
- Rethinking Resurgent Christianity in Singapore, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 1999, 27 (1): 89-112