Beng‐lan Goh
Biographic Data
| ID | 195068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beng‐lan Goh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beng‐lan |
| FAMILY NAME | Goh |
| SIGNATURE | GOH B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7634-8025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
Inter-Asia and Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore
This paper explores how Southeast Asian Studies can benefit from, but also contribute to, efforts to rethink Asian alterities within Asia by using institutional and disciplinary developments at the National University of Singapore. It shows how revisions of Asian Studies in the aftermath of the Orientalist critique have produced a critical brand of Inter-Asia discourses that provincialize dominant/Western narratives in order to recover autonomous…
Joel Kahn and an intercultural interpretation of Southeast Asian modernity
Joel S. Kahn's writings on Southeast Asian modernity are marked by an insistence on the inseparability and equality of Western and Southeast Asian thought and social-cultural experiences. His work explores continuities, breaks, and contradictions within and across each of these expansive worlds, showing omitted narratives to be no less constitutive of the modern. Drawing on conundrums over how to translate across irreducible sets of differences w…
The Question of Cultural Incommensurability
Uncertainties, perils, and hope of an Asian century
Can an Asian century provide conditions for a more equal, just, and convivial global future? This article suggests that before the future can be contemplated, it is first necessary to take stock of the current state-of-affairs in Asian societies. Using current precedents in Southeast Asian societies, this article considers the prospects of an Asian Century. When seen from this sub-region, the question of finding the right balance to capitalist gr…
Moving Theory and Methods in Southeast Asian Studies
Post‐colonial projects of a national culture
The search for alternative architectural expressions in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, has seen a shift from regionalistic and Malay revivalist architectural models to a trend labeled as Middle Eastern eclecticism, best exemplified by the new city of Putrajaya. This paper delineates and analyses these architectural shifts in these two ‘capital’ cities from the Independence to contemporary eras in terms of shifting contestations over …
Malay-Muslim spirits and Malaysian capitalist modernity
Property developers in Penang (Malaysia) were erecting shrines and performing rituals to propitiate a Malay-Muslim guardian spirit of local sacred places known interchangeably as keramat or Datuk Kong during a period of euphoric economic growth in Malaysia in the early 1990s. Drawing on anthropological approaches, this article explores the symbolic significance of this peculiar capitalist sacralisation in Penang. It argues that keramat propitiati…
Malay-Muslim spirits and Malaysian capitalist modernity
Property developers in Penang (Malaysia) were erecting shrines and performing rituals to propitiate a Malay-Muslim guardian spirit of local sacred places known interchangeably as keramat or Datuk Kong during a period of euphoric economic growth in Malaysia in the early 1990s. Drawing on anthropological approaches, this article explores the symbolic significance of this peculiar capitalist sacralisation in Penang. It argues that keramat propitiati…
The Question of Cultural Incommensurability
Post‐colonial projects of a national culture
The search for alternative architectural expressions in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, has seen a shift from regionalistic and Malay revivalist architectural models to a trend labeled as Middle Eastern eclecticism, best exemplified by the new city of Putrajaya. This paper delineates and analyses these architectural shifts in these two ‘capital’ cities from the Independence to contemporary eras in terms of shifting contestations over …
Joel Kahn and an intercultural interpretation of Southeast Asian modernity
Joel S. Kahn's writings on Southeast Asian modernity are marked by an insistence on the inseparability and equality of Western and Southeast Asian thought and social-cultural experiences. His work explores continuities, breaks, and contradictions within and across each of these expansive worlds, showing omitted narratives to be no less constitutive of the modern. Drawing on conundrums over how to translate across irreducible sets of differences w…
Malay-Muslim spirits and Malaysian capitalist modernity
Property developers in Penang (Malaysia) were erecting shrines and performing rituals to propitiate a Malay-Muslim guardian spirit of local sacred places known interchangeably as keramat or Datuk Kong during a period of euphoric economic growth in Malaysia in the early 1990s. Drawing on anthropological approaches, this article explores the symbolic significance of this peculiar capitalist sacralisation in Penang. It argues that keramat propitiati…
Post‐colonial projects of a national culture
The search for alternative architectural expressions in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, has seen a shift from regionalistic and Malay revivalist architectural models to a trend labeled as Middle Eastern eclecticism, best exemplified by the new city of Putrajaya. This paper delineates and analyses these architectural shifts in these two ‘capital’ cities from the Independence to contemporary eras in terms of shifting contestations over …
Moving Theory and Methods in Southeast Asian Studies
Uncertainties, perils, and hope of an Asian century
Can an Asian century provide conditions for a more equal, just, and convivial global future? This article suggests that before the future can be contemplated, it is first necessary to take stock of the current state-of-affairs in Asian societies. Using current precedents in Southeast Asian societies, this article considers the prospects of an Asian Century. When seen from this sub-region, the question of finding the right balance to capitalist gr…
Joel Kahn and an intercultural interpretation of Southeast Asian modernity
Joel S. Kahn's writings on Southeast Asian modernity are marked by an insistence on the inseparability and equality of Western and Southeast Asian thought and social-cultural experiences. His work explores continuities, breaks, and contradictions within and across each of these expansive worlds, showing omitted narratives to be no less constitutive of the modern. Drawing on conundrums over how to translate across irreducible sets of differences w…
The Question of Cultural Incommensurability
Inter-Asia and Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore
This paper explores how Southeast Asian Studies can benefit from, but also contribute to, efforts to rethink Asian alterities within Asia by using institutional and disciplinary developments at the National University of Singapore. It shows how revisions of Asian Studies in the aftermath of the Orientalist critique have produced a critical brand of Inter-Asia discourses that provincialize dominant/Western narratives in order to recover autonomous…
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)