Book Chapters
- Racial Culture Wars in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Protest and the Culture War in Singapore, in Terence Chong (ed.), Navigating Differences: Integration in Singapore, ISEAS, 2020, 129-147
- Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Cultural Politics of Redeveloping Kowloon East, Hong Kong, in Anoma Pieris (ed.), Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space, Routledge, 2019, 221-236
- Arrested Multiculturalisms: Race, Capitalism and State Formation in Malaysia and Singapore, in Richard T. Ashcroft and Mark Bevir (eds.), Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth: Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019, 191-211
- Legal Pluralism, Patronage Secularism and Prophetic Christianity in Singapore, in Jaclyn Neo, Arif Jamal and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 256-275
- Post-colonial Nation Building and Identity Contestations, in John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-Cheng Lo (eds.), Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2018, 525-33
- With Tim Bunnell and Ng Huiying, Aspirations in Urban(izing) Southeast Asia, in Rita Padawangi (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Routledge, 2018, 54-63
- Southeast Asia, in Anthony Orum (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018
- Grace, Megachurches, and the Christian Prince, in Terence Chong (ed.), Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asian Cities, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 181-206
- Conclusion: Urban Agency and Future Asias, in Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, Berlin: JOVIS Verlag GmbH, 2018, 305-10
- Conclusion: The Political Unconscious of Inter-Asia, in Chih-Ming Wang and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017, 219-24
- Choreographing Singapore’s Utopia by the Bay, in Tim Simpson (ed.), Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 97-120
- Elite Schools, Postcolonial Chineseness and Hegemonic Masculinities in Singapore, in Jane Kenway and Aaron Koh (eds.), New Sociologies of Elite Schooling, London: Routledge, 2017
- In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore, in Peter van der Veer (ed.), Handbook of Religion and the Asian City, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 21-36
- With Terence Chong, Asian Pentecostalism: Revivals, Mega-churches, and Social Engagement, in Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink (eds.), Handbook of Religions in Asia, London: Routledge, 2014, 402-17. Republished in abbreviated form in The 3rd ASEAN Reader, Ooi Kee Beng et al (eds.), Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2015, 79-83
- The Plural Society and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, in Nam-Kook Kim (ed.), Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia, Ashgate, 2014, 211-32
- Between Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Social Resilience and the Governance of Diversity in Singapore, in Norman Vasu and Yolanda Chin (eds), The Nation: Narratives and Communities in the Asia Pacific, Routledge, 2014, 57-83
- Pluralist Secularism and the Displacements of Christian Proselytizing in Singapore, in Michael Feener and Juliana Finucane (eds.), Proselytization and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Asia, Springer, 2013, 125-46
- Resistance and the Contradictory Rationalities of State Formation in British Malaya and the American Philippines, in George Steinmetz (ed.), Sociology and Empire, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013, 465-88
- Multiculturalism and the Problem of Solidarity in Singapore, in Terence Chong (ed.), Management of Success Revisited, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, 561-78
- With Philip Holden, Introduction: Postcoloniality, Race and Multiculturalism, in Daniel P.S. Goh et al. (eds.), Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, London: Routledge, 2009, 1-16
- Eyes Turned Towards China: Postcolonial Mimicry, Transcultural Elitism and Singapore Chineseness, in Daniel P.S. Goh et al. (eds.), Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, London: Routledge, 2009, 53-69
- Conclusion: Toward a Critical Multiculturalism, in Daniel P.S. Goh et al. (eds.), Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, London: Routledge, 2009, 213-8
- The Ideological Fantasy of British Malaya: A Postcolonial Reading of Swettenham, Clifford and Burgess,” in David CL Lim (ed.), Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysian Cultural Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2008, 109-26
- Protecting Chek Jawa: The Politics of Conservation and Memory at the Edge of a Nation, in Navjot Sodhi, Greg Acciaioli, Maribeth Erb, and Alan Tan (eds.), Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 311-29