Writing + Editing
I’ve done some writing about my research, scholarship, and personal experiences. Keep reading for links to published and publicly available work.
Refereed + Scholarly Works
2023 | “Seeing (or Perceiving) Difference in Multiracial Singapore: Habits of Looking in a Raciolinguistic Image Economy.” Journal article. In American Anthropologist.
2023 | “(De)coupling Positional Whiteness and White Identities through ‘Good English’ in Singapore.” Journal article. In Signs & Society 11(1).
2022 | “Southeast Asian Island City-State, Singapore: Multi-scalar Spatial Fictions and the Hinterland Within.” Book chapter (PDF). In New Directions in Linguistic Geography: Exploring Articulations of Space, edited by Greg Niedt (Palgrave).
2022 | “Singapore, City of the Future: Promotional Genres and Visual-Aesthetic Registers of Allochronic Futurity.” Journal article. MediaTropes 8 (2).
2022 | “Postracial Policing, ‘Mother Tongue’ Sourcing, and Images of Singlish Standard.” Journal article. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 32 (2).
2021 | “Destination Storytelling Singapore: Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and the Constructed Global Audience” (with Kenzell Huggins). Journal article. Southeast Asian Media Studies 3 (3).
2021 | “Whiteness and Pedagogies of Language.” Blog post. Anthropology News.
2021 | “Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago” (with Pranathi Diwakar). Book chapter (PDF). In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, edited by Anthony M. Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, and Serena Vicari Haddock (Wiley-Blackwell).
2020 | “Memes, Migrants, and the Epidemiological Imagination.” Blog post. UCL Medical Anthropology “Consciously Quarantined” series.
2020 | “Poetry over Panic in Singapore.” Blog post. Anthropology News.
2020 | “‘Code-Switching’ and Standardizing Singlish.” Blog post. Society for Linguistic Anthropology Blog.
Scene from the final act of the 2019 Singapore Bicentennial Experience at Fort Canning, featuring 360º LED screens and rain shower effects (photo by me)
Guest Editing
In progress | “‘Mother Tongue’ as Global Politics.” Co-edited with Jessica Chandras (University of North Florida).
2023 | “Introduction—Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Coloniality: Toward a Non-binary Semiotics of Intersectionality.” The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, co-edited with Jay Ke-Schutte (Zhejiang University).
2023 | “Beyond the Colonial Vortex of the ‘West’: Subverting Non-Western Imperialisms Before and After 24 February 2022.” South/South Movement Dialogues (collective authorship and editing).
2023 | “Introduction—Toward a ‘Both/And’ Semiotics of Intersectionality: Raciolinguistics Beyond White Settler Situations.” Signs & Society 11(1), co-edited with Jay Ke-Schutte (Zhejiang University).
2020 | “Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus.” anthro{dendum} blog.
Author:
1 May 2020 | “Introduction: Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus”
8 May 2020 | “The Nation Under Threat: Rethinking Critique, Recentering Relationships”
Editor:
15 May 2020 | “No Longer a Field” (by Rachel Howard)
22 May 2020 | “Connecting through the Layered Traumas of Fieldwork” (by CD Green)
29 May 2020 | “Pandemic Productivity” (by Hanna Pickwell)
5 June 2020 | “Disaster, Dystopia, and Disphony” (by Pranathi Diwakar)
12 June 2020 | “Home, Work, Homework, and Fieldwork” (by Yukun Zeng)
19 June 2020 | “(E)thnographic Correspondence and Collaborative Improvisation” (by Joelle Powe, Thea McRae, Christina Jones, and Laith A. Ayogu)
Installation view, cybercrime room, part of the special exhibit / escape room experience “Will You Do You?” at the Singapore Discovery Centre (photo by me)
Public + Participatory Works
December 2023 | Beyond Babel: Insurgent Multilingualism and Decolonizing Public Space. An activation, language sharing, and screening event designed to reclaim public space for non-English languages. The event took place alongside Seat or Stand and Speak (2021) by Carrie Mae Weems. Co-organized with Joe Dupris (Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Brown University), Foroogh Farhang (The Watson Institute, Brown University), Meg Harvey (Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Brown University), and Jordi Rivera Prince (Department of Anthropology, Brown University).
2022–2023 | Decolonial Pedagogies. An open-source, youth-generated resource to support decolonial learning as a practice of liberation. Public website developed with students in The College at the University of Chicago.
January 2022 | Technologies of Language, Race, and State: An Intersectional Archive. Collaborative public website developed with Andrew Crane (University College London), Ayomide Badmus, Astrid Braun, Jon Hoerner, Teddy Sandler, Marya Tawam, and Sofia Torriente (The College at the University of Chicago).
December 2021 | “Banal Insurgencies: Maps, Plans and Footpaths.” Book chapter. In Can, Cannot and Other Options: Between Defiance and Desire, Toward Fuller Lives, edited by Wayne W. J. Lim and Soh Kay Min. A Weekend Affair, Singapore.
2020 | “Love Letter: The New Normal” (with Wayne W. J. Lim and Soh Kay Min). Instagram essay and curated readings. A Weekend Monthly social newsletter series.
2018 | “Coordinating Contestations: Publics, Spaces, Interactions.” In Contested Spaces: A Field Guide, Vol. II. Edited by 2016–17 Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide Graduate Consortium Fellows. The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago.