Seng‐guan Yeoh
Biographic Data
| ID | 210109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seng‐guan Yeoh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seng‐guan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeoh |
| SIGNATURE | YEOH S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2072-7392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous Taste
For the Indigenous Sagada Igorots of upland Cordillera in northern Philippines, domesticated pigs and etag (salted and smoked pork slices) continue to play an important role for rituals and as gastronomic vehicles for constituting and performing social relatedness, reciprocity, and redistributive functions through feasting and sharing. These deep historical practices are largely mediated by the elders of Sagada in the face of various kinds of ent…
Jean DeBernardi. 2020. Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000
Urban Anthropology: Southeast Asia
Contemporary scholarship in urban anthropology in Southeast Asia is characterized by an eclectic diversity that stems from the intersections of several distinct trajectories. First, the geographical region has a long history of indigenous urbanism stretching back at least two millennia. Secondly, an array of European (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, and British) and American imperial powers left their varied urban imaginaries and stru…
Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia
Contemporary scholarship on Malaysia routinely traces the roots of present-day hyper-ethnicised politics and agonistic inter-ethnic relations back to the strategic divide-and-rule legacy of British
The World Class City, the homeless and soup kitchens in Kuala Lumpur
Since the early 1990s, Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, has been entangled in the modality of World Class City building. Following key insights by critical scholars like Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, in this article the author shows how spatio-temporal processes have historically produced variegated and contested relational spaces in the city centre. In particular, through the case-study of the recent spatial cleansing of the homel…
The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS, 1951–2013
In January, 2015 a pioneering Syariah Index Project headed by a professor from the International Islamic University Malaysia will commence. Endorsed by the prime minister’s department, the project
Producing Localities and Nationhood in a Globalizing Southeast Asian City
This essay discusses social imaginaries and their associated anxieties and varying scales and provenances that overlap and intersect at the site of the “local.” Based on a long-term fieldwork at an urban poor Hindu-Indian “squatter” settlement situated on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), how local survival strategies have morphed alongside the stabilizing imperatives of nation-hood formation are examined. In the case of Malaysia, this ha…
Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim (2008) Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making. Petaling Jaya: Sird
In Defence of the Secular? Islamisation, Christians and (New) Politics in Urbane Malaysia
Besides the clarion call for a “new politics” by opposition political parties, a significant catalyst that arguably swayed Christian electoral choices in the landmark Malaysian general elections of March 2008 was the counsel by religious leaders to safeguard “the secular state”. This action was prompted by recent high profile controversial legal cases that were perceived to be a serious erosion of the freedom of religion clause guaranteed in the …
For/Against Hybridity: Religious Entrepreneurships in a Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Shrine in Malaysia
Preaching from Pictures: A Japanese Mandala Produced and directed by David W. Plath
2006 , 119 minutes, color. Distributed by the Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, MC-025, Urbana, IL 61801 , http://www.aems.uiuc.edu Preaching from Pictures succeeds in acquainting the viewer with an unfamiliar place, milieu, and archaic visual didactic technique. Using the intricately drawn contemporary Buddhist painting of the Kumano Kanjin Jikkai Mandala (“Mandala of the T…
The headman was a woman: The gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
Religious pluralism, kinship and gender in a pilgrimage shrine: The Roman Catholic Feast of St. Anne in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia
Most Holy Saint Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke you, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with troubles, we implore you to take the petition which we recommend to you under special protection (mention it). Recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before her son Jesus Christ our Lord so that he may bring visible and speedy help where it is most needed. /Cease not to intercede for us until ou…
Managing sensitivities: Religious pluralism, civil society and inter-faith relations in Malaysia
In early 2005 the Malaysian Bar Council convened a national conference to discuss the formation of a national inter-faith commission. This aroused much controversy and the attempt was abandoned. This paper describes the background and discusses the prospects for religious pluralism and civil society in Malaysia
Producing locality: Space, houses and public culture in a Hindu festival in Malaysia
Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas have left an indelible mark on anthropological studies on ritual. Basically, Turner argued that there is a dialectic between the mediacy of social structure (characterised as a 'closed society' or 'status system') and the immediacy of communitas (an 'open society'). This article argues for a more fluid understanding of these kinds of social processes, drawing from Arjun Appadurai's char acteri…
Creolized Utopias: Squatter Colonies and the Post-Colonial City in Malaysia
In an early formulation put forward by Robert Redfield and Milton Singer, a distinction was made between that engendered orthogenetic and cultural transformations. Orthogenetic cities are associated with earlier forms of urbanism which were primarily ceremonial and literate centres that progressively refined little into more sophisticated great In contrast, heterogenetic cities are akin to present-day administrative and business cities, which are…
The headman was a woman: The gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
Managing sensitivities: Religious pluralism, civil society and inter-faith relations in Malaysia
In early 2005 the Malaysian Bar Council convened a national conference to discuss the formation of a national inter-faith commission. This aroused much controversy and the attempt was abandoned. This paper describes the background and discusses the prospects for religious pluralism and civil society in Malaysia
Creolized Utopias: Squatter Colonies and the Post-Colonial City in Malaysia
In an early formulation put forward by Robert Redfield and Milton Singer, a distinction was made between that engendered orthogenetic and cultural transformations. Orthogenetic cities are associated with earlier forms of urbanism which were primarily ceremonial and literate centres that progressively refined little into more sophisticated great In contrast, heterogenetic cities are akin to present-day administrative and business cities, which are…
In Defence of the Secular? Islamisation, Christians and (New) Politics in Urbane Malaysia
Besides the clarion call for a “new politics” by opposition political parties, a significant catalyst that arguably swayed Christian electoral choices in the landmark Malaysian general elections of March 2008 was the counsel by religious leaders to safeguard “the secular state”. This action was prompted by recent high profile controversial legal cases that were perceived to be a serious erosion of the freedom of religion clause guaranteed in the …
Producing locality: Space, houses and public culture in a Hindu festival in Malaysia
Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas have left an indelible mark on anthropological studies on ritual. Basically, Turner argued that there is a dialectic between the mediacy of social structure (characterised as a 'closed society' or 'status system') and the immediacy of communitas (an 'open society'). This article argues for a more fluid understanding of these kinds of social processes, drawing from Arjun Appadurai's char acteri…
For/Against Hybridity: Religious Entrepreneurships in a Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Shrine in Malaysia
Religious pluralism, kinship and gender in a pilgrimage shrine: The Roman Catholic Feast of St. Anne in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia
Most Holy Saint Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke you, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with troubles, we implore you to take the petition which we recommend to you under special protection (mention it). Recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before her son Jesus Christ our Lord so that he may bring visible and speedy help where it is most needed. /Cease not to intercede for us until ou…
Creolized Utopias: Squatter Colonies and the Post-Colonial City in Malaysia
In an early formulation put forward by Robert Redfield and Milton Singer, a distinction was made between that engendered orthogenetic and cultural transformations. Orthogenetic cities are associated with earlier forms of urbanism which were primarily ceremonial and literate centres that progressively refined little into more sophisticated great In contrast, heterogenetic cities are akin to present-day administrative and business cities, which are…
Producing locality: Space, houses and public culture in a Hindu festival in Malaysia
Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas have left an indelible mark on anthropological studies on ritual. Basically, Turner argued that there is a dialectic between the mediacy of social structure (characterised as a 'closed society' or 'status system') and the immediacy of communitas (an 'open society'). This article argues for a more fluid understanding of these kinds of social processes, drawing from Arjun Appadurai's char acteri…
Managing sensitivities: Religious pluralism, civil society and inter-faith relations in Malaysia
In early 2005 the Malaysian Bar Council convened a national conference to discuss the formation of a national inter-faith commission. This aroused much controversy and the attempt was abandoned. This paper describes the background and discusses the prospects for religious pluralism and civil society in Malaysia
Religious pluralism, kinship and gender in a pilgrimage shrine: The Roman Catholic Feast of St. Anne in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia
Most Holy Saint Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke you, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with troubles, we implore you to take the petition which we recommend to you under special protection (mention it). Recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before her son Jesus Christ our Lord so that he may bring visible and speedy help where it is most needed. /Cease not to intercede for us until ou…
For/Against Hybridity: Religious Entrepreneurships in a Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Shrine in Malaysia
Preaching from Pictures: A Japanese Mandala Produced and directed by David W. Plath
2006 , 119 minutes, color. Distributed by the Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, MC-025, Urbana, IL 61801 , http://www.aems.uiuc.edu Preaching from Pictures succeeds in acquainting the viewer with an unfamiliar place, milieu, and archaic visual didactic technique. Using the intricately drawn contemporary Buddhist painting of the Kumano Kanjin Jikkai Mandala (“Mandala of the T…
The headman was a woman: The gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
In Defence of the Secular? Islamisation, Christians and (New) Politics in Urbane Malaysia
Besides the clarion call for a “new politics” by opposition political parties, a significant catalyst that arguably swayed Christian electoral choices in the landmark Malaysian general elections of March 2008 was the counsel by religious leaders to safeguard “the secular state”. This action was prompted by recent high profile controversial legal cases that were perceived to be a serious erosion of the freedom of religion clause guaranteed in the …
Producing Localities and Nationhood in a Globalizing Southeast Asian City
This essay discusses social imaginaries and their associated anxieties and varying scales and provenances that overlap and intersect at the site of the “local.” Based on a long-term fieldwork at an urban poor Hindu-Indian “squatter” settlement situated on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), how local survival strategies have morphed alongside the stabilizing imperatives of nation-hood formation are examined. In the case of Malaysia, this ha…
Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim (2008) Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making. Petaling Jaya: Sird
The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS, 1951–2013
In January, 2015 a pioneering Syariah Index Project headed by a professor from the International Islamic University Malaysia will commence. Endorsed by the prime minister’s department, the project
The World Class City, the homeless and soup kitchens in Kuala Lumpur
Since the early 1990s, Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, has been entangled in the modality of World Class City building. Following key insights by critical scholars like Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, in this article the author shows how spatio-temporal processes have historically produced variegated and contested relational spaces in the city centre. In particular, through the case-study of the recent spatial cleansing of the homel…
Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia
Contemporary scholarship on Malaysia routinely traces the roots of present-day hyper-ethnicised politics and agonistic inter-ethnic relations back to the strategic divide-and-rule legacy of British
Urban Anthropology: Southeast Asia
Contemporary scholarship in urban anthropology in Southeast Asia is characterized by an eclectic diversity that stems from the intersections of several distinct trajectories. First, the geographical region has a long history of indigenous urbanism stretching back at least two millennia. Secondly, an array of European (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, and British) and American imperial powers left their varied urban imaginaries and stru…
Jean DeBernardi. 2020. Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000
Indigenous Taste
For the Indigenous Sagada Igorots of upland Cordillera in northern Philippines, domesticated pigs and etag (salted and smoked pork slices) continue to play an important role for rituals and as gastronomic vehicles for constituting and performing social relatedness, reciprocity, and redistributive functions through feasting and sharing. These deep historical practices are largely mediated by the elders of Sagada in the face of various kinds of ent…
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