Mohan Ambikaipaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 120382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohan Ambikaipaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ambikaipaker |
| SIGNATURE | AMBIKAIPAKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0197-7916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abiding by Black Liberation
Everyday Political Whiteness and Diversity University
There is a paradoxical situation in higher education today: the discourse around the concept of “diversity” has become widely institutionalized, but advocates of equality still struggle to operate within a broader and deeper racialized political and everyday cultural context that is hostile to their success. A besieged current climate for the hopes and projects of pluralism, social equality, peace, and justice imbues the higher education concept …
Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain
Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain shows how the deep processes of everyday political whiteness shape the state's failure to provide effective remedies for ethnic, racial, and religious minorities who continue to face violence and institutional racism
Failed Asian Values Subjects and Neoliberal State Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore
Since the 1990s, and currently in state discourses of free-market integration, ruling Southeast Asian elites have deployed the narrative of Asian cultural ascendance – ‘Asian values’ discourse — as an explanation for Southeast Asian developmental exceptionalism. Ruling elites continue to push for a social consensus that mobilizes neoliberal capitalist subject-formation as the proper postcolonial nation-building teleology. However, my reading of t…
Liberal exceptions
This essay examines the imbrication of violent white racism and institutional racism as a relatively permanent contradiction in British liberal governance. Utilizing fieldwork in East London, I ethnographically discuss how police and local municipal anti-racist failures are produced through tacit racial logics inherent within professional proceduralism and policymaking. Furthermore, the deployment of discourses that re-embed black and minority et…
Anti-polarization identity politics in Malaysia
Contemporary theories of racial identity have argued that race is ultimately a social-political construct rather than a primordial, biological or even cultural essence. In this article, I examine the work of the theatre activist Leow Puay Tin and explore how dissident cultural representations are mobilized in Malaysia in response to the politics of Malay domination and the coloniality of raciological social conditions. I propose the concept of a …
Anti-polarization identity politics in Malaysia
Contemporary theories of racial identity have argued that race is ultimately a social-political construct rather than a primordial, biological or even cultural essence. In this article, I examine the work of the theatre activist Leow Puay Tin and explore how dissident cultural representations are mobilized in Malaysia in response to the politics of Malay domination and the coloniality of raciological social conditions. I propose the concept of a …
Failed Asian Values Subjects and Neoliberal State Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore
Since the 1990s, and currently in state discourses of free-market integration, ruling Southeast Asian elites have deployed the narrative of Asian cultural ascendance – ‘Asian values’ discourse — as an explanation for Southeast Asian developmental exceptionalism. Ruling elites continue to push for a social consensus that mobilizes neoliberal capitalist subject-formation as the proper postcolonial nation-building teleology. However, my reading of t…
Liberal exceptions
This essay examines the imbrication of violent white racism and institutional racism as a relatively permanent contradiction in British liberal governance. Utilizing fieldwork in East London, I ethnographically discuss how police and local municipal anti-racist failures are produced through tacit racial logics inherent within professional proceduralism and policymaking. Furthermore, the deployment of discourses that re-embed black and minority et…
Anti-polarization identity politics in Malaysia
Contemporary theories of racial identity have argued that race is ultimately a social-political construct rather than a primordial, biological or even cultural essence. In this article, I examine the work of the theatre activist Leow Puay Tin and explore how dissident cultural representations are mobilized in Malaysia in response to the politics of Malay domination and the coloniality of raciological social conditions. I propose the concept of a …
Failed Asian Values Subjects and Neoliberal State Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore
Since the 1990s, and currently in state discourses of free-market integration, ruling Southeast Asian elites have deployed the narrative of Asian cultural ascendance – ‘Asian values’ discourse — as an explanation for Southeast Asian developmental exceptionalism. Ruling elites continue to push for a social consensus that mobilizes neoliberal capitalist subject-formation as the proper postcolonial nation-building teleology. However, my reading of t…
Liberal exceptions
This essay examines the imbrication of violent white racism and institutional racism as a relatively permanent contradiction in British liberal governance. Utilizing fieldwork in East London, I ethnographically discuss how police and local municipal anti-racist failures are produced through tacit racial logics inherent within professional proceduralism and policymaking. Furthermore, the deployment of discourses that re-embed black and minority et…
Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain
Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain shows how the deep processes of everyday political whiteness shape the state's failure to provide effective remedies for ethnic, racial, and religious minorities who continue to face violence and institutional racism
Everyday Political Whiteness and Diversity University
There is a paradoxical situation in higher education today: the discourse around the concept of “diversity” has become widely institutionalized, but advocates of equality still struggle to operate within a broader and deeper racialized political and everyday cultural context that is hostile to their success. A besieged current climate for the hopes and projects of pluralism, social equality, peace, and justice imbues the higher education concept …
Abiding by Black Liberation
Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (2 works)