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Commentaries
- Ya'acob Mohamed, the forgotten Singaporean pioneer: An organic intellectual, Intellectuals.SG, 2021, 26 Jul. 2021
- Singapore Sociology After Globalization, Global Dialogue: Magazine of the International Sociological Association, 2017, 7 (1), March
- With Kuan-Hsing Chen, What’s It Like to Be a Singaporean Intellectual? An Interview with Chua Beng Huat, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2016, 17 (2): 252-271
- The Little India Riot and the Spatiality of Migrant Labor in Singapore, commentary, Society and Space open site, 8 Sep. 2014
- With Tim Bunnell, Urban Aspirations and Asian Cosmopolitanisms, editorial, Geoforum, 2012, 43 (1): 1-3
- Raci(al)ist Children and Ghosts, in William S.W. Lim, Sharon Siddique and Tan Dan Feng (eds.), Singapore Shifting Boundaries: Social Change in the Early 21st Century, Singapore: Asian Urban Lab, 2011, 11-16
- The Third Phase of Singapore's Multiculturalism, in Tan Tarn How (ed.), Singapore Perspectives 2010: Home.Heart.Horizon, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific, 2010, 19-35
- The Object of Visual Sociology, in Michael Tan and Caroline Knowles, Invisible Life: Flip-Flips//Journeys//Perspectives: An Art-Sociology Investigation, Art Exhibition Catalogue, NUS Museum, Singapore, 6 Nov. 2009 – 21 Mar. 2010.
- Developing Multicultural Consciousness through Critical Pedagogy, Experiments in Pedagogy: Selected Papers from Professional Development Programme (Teaching), NUS Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, May 2008, vol. 3, pp. 20-8
- New Media and Representations of the Intellectual in the Network Society, International Sociological Association E-Bulletin, 2006, vol. 4, pp. 36-42
Book Reviews
- Review of Judth Schlehe and Evamaria Sandkühler (eds.), Religion, Tradition and the Popular: Transcultural Views from Asia and Europe (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2014], Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2015, 30 (1): 174-5
- Review of C. Fred Blake, Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011), Pacific Affairs, 2014, 87 (2): 328-30
- Review of Jini Kim Watson, The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011), Pacific Affairs, 2013, 86 (2): 373-5
- Review of Mewg Wesling, Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines (New York: NYU Press, 2011), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (4): 778-80
- Review of Pauline Leonard, Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), Contemporary Sociology, 2011, 40 (6): 729-31
- Review of Anoma Pieris, Hidden hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009), Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2010, 31 (3): 404-6
- Review of Michael D. Barr and Zlatko Skrbis, Constructing Singapore: Elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2008), Anthropological Forum, 2010, 20 (2): 183-5
- Review of Rahil Ismail et al. (ed.), Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World: Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), Anthropological Forum, 2010, 20 (1): 90-2
- Review of Maria Francesch-Huidobro, Governance, Politics and the Environment: A Singapore Study (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008), Pacific Affairs, 2009, 82 (4): 746-8
- Review of Chandreyee Niyogi (ed.), Reorienting Orientalism (New Delhi: Sage, 2006), Asian Journal of Social Science, 2009, 37 (2) 317-8
- Review of Vineeta Sinha, A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore (Singapore and Copenhagen: Singapore University Press and Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2005), Asian Journal of Social Science, 2008, 36 (4): 687-8
- Review of Souchou Yao, Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess (London: Routledge, 2007), Asian Journal of Social Science, 2007, 35 (4-5): 709-11
- Review of Joseph B. Tamney, The Struggle over Singapore's Soul: Western Modernization and Asian Culture (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996), Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 1999, 27 (2): 173-5