Saroja Dorairajoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 278775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saroja Dorairajoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saroja |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorairajoo |
| SIGNATURE | DORAIRAJOO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8856-3506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eating safely, eating Islam
This article interrogates the relationship between food and faith in an instance of hospitality in halal restaurants in the autonomous Muslim province of Ningxia in north-western China. The non-Muslim Han Chinese majority here revealed an explicit preference for eating in halal restaurants owned and operated by the Hui-Muslim minority despite the fact that Han–Hui relations in daily life were at best cordial. Critiquing Derrida’s contention on th…
Faith is Good to Eat
In this paper, I explore the relationship between food and eating in two Abrahamic faiths, viz. Islam and Christianity. I show how these religions create provisions that entreat followers to consume in an ecologically conscientious manner that is not only good for the consumers but for the society and planet as well. In effect, traditional symbolic systems such as religions that provide "magical solutions" can also provide modern solutions to mod…
Locating invisible privilege in Asia
This article that forms part of a Special Section on 'Invisible Privilege in Asia' is committed to expanding the theoretical debates in race and ethnic studies, which has been previously critiqued as a field that has focused more on the gathering of empirical observations than the development of theory. This critique is even more pronounced within the realm of studying race and ethnicity in Asia, where research is often siloed within the contexts…
Invisible privilege in Asia
This introduction to the special section 'Invisible Privilege in Asia' suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and social movements that have renewed the focus on racialised inequality and hierarchy, we use this moment to urge an interrogation of the conceptual productivity of the notion of privilege. This project is particularly significant within a region that is…
A preliminary study on the features of Chinese social work forces’ involvement in rural anti-poverty
In 2015, the Chinese government announced the “Statement on Winning the Battle against Extreme Poverty” and launched a series of more intensive nationwide programmes targeting absolute poverty eradication. Chinese social agents from all walks of life, such as professional social work forces, were called and united by the central government to be involved in the battle. Through document research and in-depth interviews, this qualitative research a…
American Muslims' Da'wah Work and Islamic Conversion
Prior to the "9/11 attacks", negative images of Islam in America were prevalent, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks made the situation for, and image of, Islam more sinister than before. Notwithstanding the extreme Islamophobia, one notes that, ironically in America, more people have been embracing Islam since, at least, the beginning of the twentieth century. Conversion to Islam in America seems to be a deviation from the adverse American public opi…
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes
Food, Foodways and Foodscapes
Peaceful Thai, Violent Malay(-Muslim)
This paper tries to understand why the Malay-speaking Muslims of southern Thailand are viewed perpetual national security threats by looking at some deep-seated identity constructions that aligns Malay identity with violence and Thai identity with peace and patriotism. By insisting that southern Thai Malay-Muslims identify as Thai rather than as Malay, the Thai state and its Buddhist citizens view Malay-Muslims insistence on their Malay identity …
Current Violence In Thailand is Highly Contextual and Local
Violence in the south of Thailand
This paper explores the possible reasons behind the current violence in southern Thailand with a focus on the violent events that took place on 28 April 2004, which resulted in the death of 107 Muslim militants in the southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Songkhla.While the authorities seem to believe that the perpetrators of this violence are separatists the author argues that the recent violence is perpetrated by a new group or groups of…
Violence in the south of Thailand
This paper explores the possible reasons behind the current violence in southern Thailand with a focus on the violent events that took place on 28 April 2004, which resulted in the death of 107 Muslim militants in the southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Songkhla.While the authorities seem to believe that the perpetrators of this violence are separatists the author argues that the recent violence is perpetrated by a new group or groups of…
Locating invisible privilege in Asia
This article that forms part of a Special Section on 'Invisible Privilege in Asia' is committed to expanding the theoretical debates in race and ethnic studies, which has been previously critiqued as a field that has focused more on the gathering of empirical observations than the development of theory. This critique is even more pronounced within the realm of studying race and ethnicity in Asia, where research is often siloed within the contexts…
American Muslims' Da'wah Work and Islamic Conversion
Prior to the "9/11 attacks", negative images of Islam in America were prevalent, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks made the situation for, and image of, Islam more sinister than before. Notwithstanding the extreme Islamophobia, one notes that, ironically in America, more people have been embracing Islam since, at least, the beginning of the twentieth century. Conversion to Islam in America seems to be a deviation from the adverse American public opi…
Peaceful Thai, Violent Malay(-Muslim)
This paper tries to understand why the Malay-speaking Muslims of southern Thailand are viewed perpetual national security threats by looking at some deep-seated identity constructions that aligns Malay identity with violence and Thai identity with peace and patriotism. By insisting that southern Thai Malay-Muslims identify as Thai rather than as Malay, the Thai state and its Buddhist citizens view Malay-Muslims insistence on their Malay identity …
A preliminary study on the features of Chinese social work forces’ involvement in rural anti-poverty
In 2015, the Chinese government announced the “Statement on Winning the Battle against Extreme Poverty” and launched a series of more intensive nationwide programmes targeting absolute poverty eradication. Chinese social agents from all walks of life, such as professional social work forces, were called and united by the central government to be involved in the battle. Through document research and in-depth interviews, this qualitative research a…
Violence in the south of Thailand
This paper explores the possible reasons behind the current violence in southern Thailand with a focus on the violent events that took place on 28 April 2004, which resulted in the death of 107 Muslim militants in the southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Songkhla.While the authorities seem to believe that the perpetrators of this violence are separatists the author argues that the recent violence is perpetrated by a new group or groups of…
Current Violence In Thailand is Highly Contextual and Local
Peaceful Thai, Violent Malay(-Muslim)
This paper tries to understand why the Malay-speaking Muslims of southern Thailand are viewed perpetual national security threats by looking at some deep-seated identity constructions that aligns Malay identity with violence and Thai identity with peace and patriotism. By insisting that southern Thai Malay-Muslims identify as Thai rather than as Malay, the Thai state and its Buddhist citizens view Malay-Muslims insistence on their Malay identity …
Food, Foodways and Foodscapes
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes
American Muslims' Da'wah Work and Islamic Conversion
Prior to the "9/11 attacks", negative images of Islam in America were prevalent, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks made the situation for, and image of, Islam more sinister than before. Notwithstanding the extreme Islamophobia, one notes that, ironically in America, more people have been embracing Islam since, at least, the beginning of the twentieth century. Conversion to Islam in America seems to be a deviation from the adverse American public opi…
A preliminary study on the features of Chinese social work forces’ involvement in rural anti-poverty
In 2015, the Chinese government announced the “Statement on Winning the Battle against Extreme Poverty” and launched a series of more intensive nationwide programmes targeting absolute poverty eradication. Chinese social agents from all walks of life, such as professional social work forces, were called and united by the central government to be involved in the battle. Through document research and in-depth interviews, this qualitative research a…
Faith is Good to Eat
In this paper, I explore the relationship between food and eating in two Abrahamic faiths, viz. Islam and Christianity. I show how these religions create provisions that entreat followers to consume in an ecologically conscientious manner that is not only good for the consumers but for the society and planet as well. In effect, traditional symbolic systems such as religions that provide "magical solutions" can also provide modern solutions to mod…
Locating invisible privilege in Asia
This article that forms part of a Special Section on 'Invisible Privilege in Asia' is committed to expanding the theoretical debates in race and ethnic studies, which has been previously critiqued as a field that has focused more on the gathering of empirical observations than the development of theory. This critique is even more pronounced within the realm of studying race and ethnicity in Asia, where research is often siloed within the contexts…
Invisible privilege in Asia
This introduction to the special section 'Invisible Privilege in Asia' suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and social movements that have renewed the focus on racialised inequality and hierarchy, we use this moment to urge an interrogation of the conceptual productivity of the notion of privilege. This project is particularly significant within a region that is…
Eating safely, eating Islam
This article interrogates the relationship between food and faith in an instance of hospitality in halal restaurants in the autonomous Muslim province of Ningxia in north-western China. The non-Muslim Han Chinese majority here revealed an explicit preference for eating in halal restaurants owned and operated by the Hui-Muslim minority despite the fact that Han–Hui relations in daily life were at best cordial. Critiquing Derrida’s contention on th…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · China (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian studies (2 works)