Dr Yeoh Seng Guan
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B.Div. (SEAGST, Singapore)
Ph.D. ( University of Edinburgh)
- Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
Studies
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My
research areas have basically revolved around examining
the production, appropriation and deployment of space –
material, symbolic and technological - by a range of
social actors and institutions across time and cultures.
In pursuit of these themes, I have conducted fieldwork
in various “sites” in Kuala Lumpur and in Penang (both
in Malaysia), and more recently in northern Philippines.
To promote regional literacy and networking
possibilities for my students, I also organize annual
study trips to neighbouring Southeast Asian countries.
These trips result in collective blogs and video
documentaries produced by student travellers.
I facilitate regular video-making workshops and other
related activities to inculcate the use of new media in
visually documenting and disseminating critically
informed commentaries about the world we live in.
Together with my colleague, Benjamin McKay, we curate
the Nasi Bungkus
Cinema that showcases experimental and short
films made by students and accomplished film-makers in
the region.
I am involved in a number of local and regionally-based
civil society groups under different capacities. My
research expertise has been sought and reported in a few
local dailies and broadcasting media.
Among others, I have been a recipient of the Evans
Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Cambridge),
Kaneka Southeast Asian Fellowship (IKMAS, Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia), and the Asian Public Intellectuals
Fellowships (Nippon Foundation).
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Academic Publications
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Forthcoming |
Limiting cosmopolitanism: Streetlife Little India, Kuala Lumpur,
in Shail Mayaram ed.
The Other Global City,
London: Routledge |
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Forthcoming |
For/against hybridity: Religious entrepreneurship in a Roman
Catholic pilgrimage shrine in Malaysia, in
Asian Journal of Social
Science, 36 (5) |
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Forthcoming |
The streets of Kuala Lumpur: Cityscape, ‘race’ and civil
disobedience, in Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham
eds. Dissent and
Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities.
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Forthcoming |
7 entries, in Jan Rogozinski ed.
The City and Urban Life, New York: M. E. Sharpe
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Forthcoming |
Notes on a critical visual ethnography of sidewalk vending in
Baguio City, In Proceedings of 5th Asian Public Intellectuals Regional Workshop,
November, 2006. |
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Forthcoming |
Review of ‘Visualizing Anthropology’ edited by Anna Grimshaw and
Amanda Ravetz (2005), in
Visual Anthropology
Review |
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Film review of ‘Preaching from Pictures: A Japanese
Mandala’ produced & directed by David W Plath
(2006), in
Visual Anthropology Review
Review of ‘Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural
Malaysia by Eric C Thompson (2007), in
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Editor,
Media, Culture
and Society in Malaysia
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Forthcoming |
Editor, Subaltern Kuala
Lumpur |
2008
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Sidewalk Capitalism:
'Notes on a Critical Visual Ethnography of Street
Vending in Baguio City, The Philippines', in 'Are We
Up to the Challenge?: Current Crises and the Asian
Intellectual Community. The Work Of the 2005/2006
Fellows, Tokyo: The Nippon Foundation |
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Lead Editor, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution & Neil Khor,
Penang and its
neighbours, Singapore: Singapore University
Press |
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Review of ‘A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran worship in
contemporary Singapore’ by Vineeta Sinha (2006), in
Material Religion: The
Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 4(1):
104-105 |
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2006 |
Religious pluralism, gender and kinship in a pilgrimage shrine:
The Feast of St Anne in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia, in
Material Religion: The
Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, 3 (1):
4-37. |
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2006 |
Writing, business and politics in the academe: A view from afar,
in International
Sociological Association E-Bulletin, No. 4,
July: 32-35. |
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Managing sensitivities: Religious pluralism, civil society and
inter-faith relations in Malaysia, in
The Roundtable: The
Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs,
94 (382): 629-640. |
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Review of ‘Rites of Belonging: Memory, modernity and identity in
a Chinese community’ by Jean DeBernardi (2004), in
Journal of Chinese
Political Science, 10 (2): 110-111.
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2005 |
House, kampung and taman: Spatial hegemony and the politics (and
poetics) of space, in
Crossroads:
Interdisciplinary studies for Southeast Asian Studies,
17 (2): 71-103. |
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2004 |
The unbearable likeness of democratic multiculturalism, in M
Nadarajah, Another
Malaysia is Possible, Kuala Lumpur: NOHD,
273-278. |
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2004 |
With Gayathry V. Media values, media ownership and democratic
governance in Malaysia, in
Communicating the
Future: Proceedings on the National Conference on the
Future of the Media in a Knowledge Society. Rights,
Responsibilities and Risks, Kuala Lumpur:
United Nations Development Programme & Kinibooks, 76-
98. |
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2002 |
Review of ‘The Meaning and Power of Social Space” by Hans-Dieter
Evers and Rudiger Korff, in
Sojourn,
17(2): 306-310. |
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2002 |
10 entries in D. Levinson and K Christensen eds.
Encyclopedia of Modern
Asia , New York: Charles Scribner’s Son.
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2001 |
Creolised utopias: Squatter colonies and the postcolonial city in
Malaysia, in Sojourn,
16 (1): 102-124. |
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2001 |
Producing locality: Space, houses and public culture in a Hindu
festival in Malaysia, in
Contributions to Indian
Sociology (n.s.), 35 (1): 33-64.
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2001
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Poverty, in S. Sunquist ed.
A
Dictionary of Asian Christianity,
Grand Rapids & Cambridge: Eerdmans, 667-669.
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Non-peer-reviewed Publications (selected)
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Forthcoming |
$#@% mak!: Notes on swearing in Malaysia.
Off The Edge
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2006 |
Sounding the gong of resistance.
Aliran Monthly 26 (5): 19-21. |
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2001 |
That we may not separate them in our hearts.
Aliran Monthly
21(9): 13-14. |
Videography
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Forthcoming |
The bookshop |
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Forthcoming |
Manang Nora |
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2006 |
Sidewalk capitalism: Being a street vendor in Baguio City, the
Philippines (70 mins) |
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2006 |
The gladiator cock (10 mins) |
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