ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
‘Full Colour Illustrations: Presentations of Race in Singapore’s History Textbooks, 1965-2000’, in Pia Joliffe and Thomas Bruce, eds., Southeast Asian Education in Modern History: Schools, Manipulation and Contest. Abingdon: Routledge (2018), pp 158-177.
‘Singapore's Relations with Malaysia and Indonesia’, with Joseph Chinyoung Liow, in Barry Desker and Ang Cheng Guan, eds., Perspectives on the Security of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific (2015), pp 135-152.
‘“An Hour Before Dawn”: Social and Political Awareness among English-Educated Students in Post-War Singapore’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol 95.2, Dec 2022, pp 83-107.
‘(Trans)National Service: Reconfiguring Citizenship through Conscription in Singapore’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol 92.1, June 2019, pp 67-90.
‘A Loss for Words: Visual Representations of Migrants and Refugees in the Leave and Trump Campaigns’, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, Vol 8.1, Sept 2019, pp 107-122.
‘Memorandum: A Sinophone Singaporean Short Story Reader’, Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia, Vol 11 (1-2), Jan 2021, pp 323-328.
‘Surveying Singapore’s Future: Review of The Birthday Book’, ETHOS, Issue 16, Dec 2016, pp 86-91.
‘Re-centring the margins: Reflections on the Singapore Literature Symposium.’ Singapore Literature Symposium, 8-9 May 2021, closing remarks. School of Humanities (Singapore Studies Cluster), Nanyang Technological University.
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MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT
Asymptote:
‘Notes from a Camp: A Window into the Lives of Singapore’s Boat People’
Open Migration:
‘Losing Ground: Listening to the voices of Climate Refugees’ (with Rebecca Buxton)
Oxford Development Matters:
Refugees Deeply:
‘Reply to Refugia: Nothing Utopian About an Archipelago of Exclusion’ (with Jade Huynh and Rebecca Buxton)
Singapore Policy Journal:
‘The Quality of Mercy’
‘Safer Waters: An Asylum Policy for Singapore?’
‘Love, Labour and Loss: Decoding the “migrant worker”’
’Measuring with the Heart: How we see and speak about inequality’
’Citizenship in Crisis’
South China Morning Post:
‘Would Asia’s army of migrant domestic workers stay home if they could?’
The Diplomat:
‘Will Najib’s Vocal Defense of the Rohingya Backfire?’,
‘Between Home and a Hard Place: Paying refugees to return’ (with Rebecca Buxton)
The Middle Ground (originally in The Birthday Book):
‘The Possibilities of Kindness’
The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN):
‘Refugees are not “Political Resources”’ (with Rebecca Buxton)
SOCIAL AND POLICY ISSUES
Challenge:
‘Rhyme and Reason: What Poetry and Policy have in common’
ETHOS:
’Rethinking Responsibility’ (with Stephanie Siow)
‘Shoulder to Shoulder: Why Partnership Matters in Times of Crisis’
Mekong Review:
‘RI at 200’ History Series:
‘Solidarity and Hope: The First Year’
Singapore Policy Journal:
‘A History Worth Remembering: Forced Labour and National Identity in Singapore’
‘Measuring with the Heart: How we see and speak about inequality’
‘Citizenship in Crisis’
The Straits Times:
‘Make citizenship count for more than the perks it gives’
TODAY:
‘How Singapore’s youth are changing the social sector by going beyond volunteerism’
‘A place to call home’
‘Building inclusive conversations in civil society’
WRITING AND LITERATURE
Asian Books Blog:
‘Building a House in a Moving World’
‘Poems from a Pandemic: Starting notes on a new (sub)genre?’
Asymptote:
‘Reading the Refugee Crisis’
’A “People’s Literature” of Southeast Asia?’
Ethos Books:
‘Where does Singapore poetry begin?’
Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore
SG Magazine:
‘21 Years with Ethos Books: Charting Reflections and New Directions’
The Oxford Culture Review:
‘Found in Translation: The art of approximation’
The Oxford Student:
‘Safer Waters: Writing from a distance’
The Philosophical Salon:
‘No Poetry after Auschwitz? On the writer’s place in responding to crisis’
The Straits Times: