Chorswang Ngin
Biographic Data
| ID | 138770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chorswang Ngin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chorswang |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngin |
| SIGNATURE | NGIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7974-9468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who Has Permission to Write and Teach What? Cultural Expertise on "Race" in the American Courtroom and Anthropology
Constructing Anthropological Expertise
Anthropologists working with marginalised populations in need of legal representation have faced challenges spanning epistemological, methodological and ethical questions. In the provision of evidence to legal-administrative processes, how do we overcome some of the obstacles in solving these problems? In this paper, we discuss our experience working through the case of a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico in the United States and the case of …
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions
Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper discusses indigenous peoples’ emotional responses to land exclusions in two Bunong villages, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. We examine how villagers responded to land exclusions brought about by both state-sponsored conservation and economic land concessions. To understand their responses, we work with the concept of emotions as an embodiment of both personal and collective experiences, to draw attenti…
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity
The publication of a controversial article in Third World Quarterly and the consequent unveiling and critical questioning of journal practices continue to engender strong negative feelings for many scholars. At a critical juncture within the publication process of this collection, we faced an ethical dilemma regarding how to maintain political and ethical commitments while manoeuvring within a sometimes hostile academic environment. Here we exami…
When parents are not present
Struggles for Life
Struggles revolving around questions of land access and control occupy a central place in the political and social life of contemporary Cambodia. In this study, we examine three cases of struggles against economic [State] land concessions. In a context of unequal power distribution among the actors involved, we elicit the place of the peasantry and its agency to resist and engage in negotiations with multi-level State authorities and market actor…
Community economies in Monsoon Asia
A diversity of place‐based community economic practices that enact ethical interdependence has long enabled livelihoods in Monsoon Asia. Managed either democratically or coercively, these culturally inflected practices have survived the rise of a cash economy, albeit in modified form, sometimes being co‐opted to state projects. In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as ‘traditional’, ‘rural’ and largely supersed…
HIV prevalence, risky behaviors, and discrimination experiences among transgender women in Cambodia
BACKGROUND: Transgender people are disproportionately affected by HIV. Despite their high vulnerability to HIV, lack of adequate epidemiological and surveillance data related to this population in many countries prevents provision of appropriate services. This paper summarizes descriptive findings from a national integrated biological and behavioral survey and discusses policy implications of the findings on HIV prevention among transgender women…
Non-communicable diseases and related risk behaviors among men and women living with HIV in Cambodia
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia among men and women living with HIV in Cambodia is considerably high. Related risk factors were also common. Given the comorbidity of NCDs and HIV, policy and programmatic interventions are required, including integration of NCD screening into HIV programs. Distinctions in the levels of diseases and in health behaviors between men and women suggest that interventions need to be…
Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia
Using a case study of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Cambodia, this article adds to emerging literature on local responses to land grabbing. While much of this literature has focused on political opportunity structures, this article looks at the agency of local groups organizing in response to land grabbing. Noting that organization and connections have been 'missing links' in the literature, the authors draw on thinking on collective acti…
Understanding Power in Hybrid Political Orders
Current peacebuilding debates centre around the idea that international and local activities need to be better aligned. However, the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘international’ actors and processes obscures both power and interest differentials among actors and the various interconnections between international, national and local actors and discourses. This article proposes stakeholder analysis as a way to help understand power relations amo…
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia ChorSwang Ngin (bio) Maria, a foreign domestic worker in Malaysia, was in labor. A friend of her employer drove her to a private maternity clinic. Maria was a foreign worker in Malaysia; therefore her pregnancy was illegal and in violation of her work contract. To keep her job, Maria had to give up her infant for adoption and return to work immediately. Through an inform…
Postcolonial Urbanism
Yesterday's Enemy Is the Friend of Today
Dear Mom and Dad,I'm finally settling down in the dorms. The Alumnae Society has given me a brand new set of linens and my American host family has taken me shopping. Right now, all my basic needs are taken care of.I know that allowing your eldest daughter to attend college in America is a difficult decision for you. You would rather that I go to the University of Malaya where I had also been admitted. You could also have my help with the store a…
Yesterday's Enemy Is the Friend of Today
Parent-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in Peninsular Malaysia
Community of fate
A New Look at the Old "Race" Language
This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race” current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race” are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race” requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race” and “race relations” to a new language that rejects “race” as a descriptive and an analytica…
Community economies in Monsoon Asia
A diversity of place‐based community economic practices that enact ethical interdependence has long enabled livelihoods in Monsoon Asia. Managed either democratically or coercively, these culturally inflected practices have survived the rise of a cash economy, albeit in modified form, sometimes being co‐opted to state projects. In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as ‘traditional’, ‘rural’ and largely supersed…
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions
Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper discusses indigenous peoples’ emotional responses to land exclusions in two Bunong villages, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. We examine how villagers responded to land exclusions brought about by both state-sponsored conservation and economic land concessions. To understand their responses, we work with the concept of emotions as an embodiment of both personal and collective experiences, to draw attenti…
When parents are not present
Understanding Power in Hybrid Political Orders
Current peacebuilding debates centre around the idea that international and local activities need to be better aligned. However, the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘international’ actors and processes obscures both power and interest differentials among actors and the various interconnections between international, national and local actors and discourses. This article proposes stakeholder analysis as a way to help understand power relations amo…
A New Look at the Old "Race" Language
This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race” current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race” are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race” requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race” and “race relations” to a new language that rejects “race” as a descriptive and an analytica…
Parent-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in Peninsular Malaysia
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity
The publication of a controversial article in Third World Quarterly and the consequent unveiling and critical questioning of journal practices continue to engender strong negative feelings for many scholars. At a critical juncture within the publication process of this collection, we faced an ethical dilemma regarding how to maintain political and ethical commitments while manoeuvring within a sometimes hostile academic environment. Here we exami…
Struggles for Life
Struggles revolving around questions of land access and control occupy a central place in the political and social life of contemporary Cambodia. In this study, we examine three cases of struggles against economic [State] land concessions. In a context of unequal power distribution among the actors involved, we elicit the place of the peasantry and its agency to resist and engage in negotiations with multi-level State authorities and market actor…
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia ChorSwang Ngin (bio) Maria, a foreign domestic worker in Malaysia, was in labor. A friend of her employer drove her to a private maternity clinic. Maria was a foreign worker in Malaysia; therefore her pregnancy was illegal and in violation of her work contract. To keep her job, Maria had to give up her infant for adoption and return to work immediately. Through an inform…
Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia
Using a case study of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Cambodia, this article adds to emerging literature on local responses to land grabbing. While much of this literature has focused on political opportunity structures, this article looks at the agency of local groups organizing in response to land grabbing. Noting that organization and connections have been 'missing links' in the literature, the authors draw on thinking on collective acti…
A New Look at the Old "Race" Language
This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race” current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race” are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race” requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race” and “race relations” to a new language that rejects “race” as a descriptive and an analytica…
Community of fate
Parent-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in Peninsular Malaysia
Yesterday's Enemy Is the Friend of Today
Dear Mom and Dad,I'm finally settling down in the dorms. The Alumnae Society has given me a brand new set of linens and my American host family has taken me shopping. Right now, all my basic needs are taken care of.I know that allowing your eldest daughter to attend college in America is a difficult decision for you. You would rather that I go to the University of Malaya where I had also been admitted. You could also have my help with the store a…
Yesterday's Enemy Is the Friend of Today
Postcolonial Urbanism
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia
Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia ChorSwang Ngin (bio) Maria, a foreign domestic worker in Malaysia, was in labor. A friend of her employer drove her to a private maternity clinic. Maria was a foreign worker in Malaysia; therefore her pregnancy was illegal and in violation of her work contract. To keep her job, Maria had to give up her infant for adoption and return to work immediately. Through an inform…
Understanding Power in Hybrid Political Orders
Current peacebuilding debates centre around the idea that international and local activities need to be better aligned. However, the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘international’ actors and processes obscures both power and interest differentials among actors and the various interconnections between international, national and local actors and discourses. This article proposes stakeholder analysis as a way to help understand power relations amo…
HIV prevalence, risky behaviors, and discrimination experiences among transgender women in Cambodia
BACKGROUND: Transgender people are disproportionately affected by HIV. Despite their high vulnerability to HIV, lack of adequate epidemiological and surveillance data related to this population in many countries prevents provision of appropriate services. This paper summarizes descriptive findings from a national integrated biological and behavioral survey and discusses policy implications of the findings on HIV prevention among transgender women…
Non-communicable diseases and related risk behaviors among men and women living with HIV in Cambodia
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia among men and women living with HIV in Cambodia is considerably high. Related risk factors were also common. Given the comorbidity of NCDs and HIV, policy and programmatic interventions are required, including integration of NCD screening into HIV programs. Distinctions in the levels of diseases and in health behaviors between men and women suggest that interventions need to be…
Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia
Using a case study of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Cambodia, this article adds to emerging literature on local responses to land grabbing. While much of this literature has focused on political opportunity structures, this article looks at the agency of local groups organizing in response to land grabbing. Noting that organization and connections have been 'missing links' in the literature, the authors draw on thinking on collective acti…
Community economies in Monsoon Asia
A diversity of place‐based community economic practices that enact ethical interdependence has long enabled livelihoods in Monsoon Asia. Managed either democratically or coercively, these culturally inflected practices have survived the rise of a cash economy, albeit in modified form, sometimes being co‐opted to state projects. In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as ‘traditional’, ‘rural’ and largely supersed…
Struggles for Life
Struggles revolving around questions of land access and control occupy a central place in the political and social life of contemporary Cambodia. In this study, we examine three cases of struggles against economic [State] land concessions. In a context of unequal power distribution among the actors involved, we elicit the place of the peasantry and its agency to resist and engage in negotiations with multi-level State authorities and market actor…
When parents are not present
Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions
Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper discusses indigenous peoples’ emotional responses to land exclusions in two Bunong villages, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. We examine how villagers responded to land exclusions brought about by both state-sponsored conservation and economic land concessions. To understand their responses, we work with the concept of emotions as an embodiment of both personal and collective experiences, to draw attenti…
(Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity
The publication of a controversial article in Third World Quarterly and the consequent unveiling and critical questioning of journal practices continue to engender strong negative feelings for many scholars. At a critical juncture within the publication process of this collection, we faced an ethical dilemma regarding how to maintain political and ethical commitments while manoeuvring within a sometimes hostile academic environment. Here we exami…
Who Has Permission to Write and Teach What? Cultural Expertise on "Race" in the American Courtroom and Anthropology
Constructing Anthropological Expertise
Anthropologists working with marginalised populations in need of legal representation have faced challenges spanning epistemological, methodological and ethical questions. In the provision of evidence to legal-administrative processes, how do we overcome some of the obstacles in solving these problems? In this paper, we discuss our experience working through the case of a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico in the United States and the case of …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Cambodian History and Society (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)