Brendan Luyt
Biographic Data
| ID | 284915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Luyt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Luyt |
| SIGNATURE | LUYT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7830-2602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who benefits from the idea of screen time
Public discourse surrounding children’s use of digital technologies centres on fears that excessive screen time harms development and well-being. Consequently, policymakers and organizations have introduced time-focused guidelines and advisories surrounding children and youth’s media use. In ethnographic work examining digital technology use in families of preschoolers, we found that parents often spoke about device use in guilt-ridden and shamef…
Catering to the sailor-tourist in the early twentieth century Philippines: The Gob’s Guide to Manila
Printing in Early 20th Century Singapore: The Contrasting Fates of C. A. Ribeiro Company and Rickard Limited
The printing industry was extremely competitive in Singapore in the 1920s and 1930s. A few large firms, such as Fraser & Neave, occupied the top tier of the industry and achieved economies of scale through steady modernization and mechanization of equipment and operations. New entrants struggling to establish themselves created intense competitive pressure among smaller printing firms, and the Depression worsened the situation. To survive under s…
Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines
Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction of an imagined reader and the ties between that reader and the wider social context of their production, in this case neo-colonialism, the Cold War a…
An Excerpt from Carl Gibson-Hill: Boats, Birds, Photography, and History in Late-Colonial Malaya
An Excerpt from Carl Gibson-Hill: Boats, Birds, Photography, and History in Late-Colonial Malaya Brendan Luyt Ed. Note. Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill edited JMBRAS throughout the 1950s, and made notable contributions to photography, ornithology, museology, and the writing of Malayan history. In another era, Gibson-Hill might have been accounted a major figure in colonial scholarship, but he lived in Singapore at a time when British authorities were …
A golden age of library development: The social and political context of the Philippine Library in Manila in the early years of the twentieth century
In this article I demonstrate that the Philippine Library in Manila fulfilled both public and national library roles during the early years of the American colonial regime. I also link these roles to a wider social and political context. The colonial government was unable to rule as it wished in the Philippines. The heavy resistance it faced at the dawn of its regime, resistance which continued throughout the American occupation, meant that it ha…
The Lumberman and the lumber industry in the 1950s Philippines
In 1954, a new Philippine trade periodical published its first issue, one of many to follow. The Lumberman , as well as providing a wealth of detail about the early postwar logging and lumber industry in the Philippines, also records a sustained attempt to imbue readers with a progressive forestry ethos capable of combating entrenched notions of the forests as wastelands and trees as a hindrance to civilisation. It would be easy to dismiss this p…
The American colonial state on display: The Philippine Library exhibit at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
In 1915 San Francisco hosted the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Included among the exhibits was one produced by James Robertson, the librarian of the Philippine Library. This exhibit fulfilled a number of functions. It directly tapped into one of the main discourses the exhibition's organisers wished to promote – the superiority of the people of the United States in comparison to the supposedly enfeebled Spanish society that had been dispossessed of …
Slow and Steady Wins the Race: An Analysis of Contemporary Children’s Publishers in the Philippines
Producing Malaya: The Photography of Carl A. Gibson-Hill
Much has been written on the subject of colonial photography but, despite the importance of British Malaya to the British Empire, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. In this article I present an analysis of Malaya, a book of photographs taken by Carl A. Gibson-Hill with an accompanying text written by Gerald Hawkins. Gibson-Hill, a former director of the Raffles (now National) Museum of Singapore photographed the region in the …
The early years of Philippine Studies , 1953 to 1966
The academic journal has been a key element of the scholarly world for some time and as a key component of this world it deserves historical examination. But this has not often been forthcoming, especially for regions of the world outside the Anglo-American core. In this article I examine the content of the early years of Philippine Studies . Founded in 1953, it has survived and prospered up to the present day as a vehicle for scholarly studies o…
Reading the Minor Forest Products Bulletins of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry: A Case Study of the Role of Reference Works in the American Empire of the Early Twentieth Century
Empires are built around the control of information, with an often-overlooked aspect of empire building being the construction of tools of reference. These tools incorporate in summary form the multiplicity of inscriptions that are a product of the empire’s epistemological operations. In order to shed some light on this face of empire, this article focuses on three readings of the minor forest products bulletins published by the Bureau of Forestr…
Empire forestry and its failure in the Philippines: 1901–1941
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards there developed in the British colonies a distinctive set of forestry practices that came to be described as Empire forestry. These practices grew out of the same milieu as imperialism, and had their earliest expression in British India. Gregory Barton argues that Empire forestry also heavily influenced the forestry of the United States and that from there it spread to the Philippines. However, this article…
The Hophrasamut Wachirayan: Library and Club of the Siamese Aristocracy, 1881–1905
This article charts the origin of the Wachirayan Library of Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) and argues that it performed multiple roles. The library helped build not only the modern Siamese nation-state but also the modern Siamese elite by accumulating modern knowledge, serving as the nucleus of a social club, and functioning as a center for recreational education. The library became deeply involved in the society of which it was a part
Singaporean Social Science Journals: Creating a Regional Voice or Scrambling to Reach the Top
The One Laptop Per Child Project and the negotiation of technological meaning
In this article I use actor–network theory to make sense of some of the characteristics given to the XO by the OLPC Project; namely its immense scale, the involvement of educational bureaucracies (and the contradictions this entails), the role of children and the open source software community. I also identify several social forces that will likely shape the direction this technology takes. The future of the XO is, as a result of these forces, by…
Who benefits from the digital divide? (originally published in August 2004)
New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue on the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country govern…
The hegemonic work of automated election technology in the Philippines
This article addresses the political role of information technology in the Philippines. It uses a theoretical framework inspired by Antonio Gramsci to examine the discourse surrounding automated elections in two major daily papers, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Business World Philippines. It argues that this discourse strengthens current conceptions of the development process by appealing to the interests not only of the dominant fraction of …
Who benefits from the digital divide
New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue on the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country govern…
Jica's image of the Philippines
The politics of Jica in the Philippines
Empire forestry and its failure in the Philippines: 1901–1941
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards there developed in the British colonies a distinctive set of forestry practices that came to be described as Empire forestry. These practices grew out of the same milieu as imperialism, and had their earliest expression in British India. Gregory Barton argues that Empire forestry also heavily influenced the forestry of the United States and that from there it spread to the Philippines. However, this article…
The politics of Jica in the Philippines
The politics of Jica in the Philippines
Jica's image of the Philippines
Who benefits from the digital divide
New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue on the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country govern…
Who benefits from the digital divide? (originally published in August 2004)
New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue on the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country govern…
The hegemonic work of automated election technology in the Philippines
This article addresses the political role of information technology in the Philippines. It uses a theoretical framework inspired by Antonio Gramsci to examine the discourse surrounding automated elections in two major daily papers, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Business World Philippines. It argues that this discourse strengthens current conceptions of the development process by appealing to the interests not only of the dominant fraction of …
The One Laptop Per Child Project and the negotiation of technological meaning
In this article I use actor–network theory to make sense of some of the characteristics given to the XO by the OLPC Project; namely its immense scale, the involvement of educational bureaucracies (and the contradictions this entails), the role of children and the open source software community. I also identify several social forces that will likely shape the direction this technology takes. The future of the XO is, as a result of these forces, by…
Singaporean Social Science Journals: Creating a Regional Voice or Scrambling to Reach the Top
The Hophrasamut Wachirayan: Library and Club of the Siamese Aristocracy, 1881–1905
This article charts the origin of the Wachirayan Library of Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) and argues that it performed multiple roles. The library helped build not only the modern Siamese nation-state but also the modern Siamese elite by accumulating modern knowledge, serving as the nucleus of a social club, and functioning as a center for recreational education. The library became deeply involved in the society of which it was a part
Empire forestry and its failure in the Philippines: 1901–1941
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards there developed in the British colonies a distinctive set of forestry practices that came to be described as Empire forestry. These practices grew out of the same milieu as imperialism, and had their earliest expression in British India. Gregory Barton argues that Empire forestry also heavily influenced the forestry of the United States and that from there it spread to the Philippines. However, this article…
Reading the Minor Forest Products Bulletins of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry: A Case Study of the Role of Reference Works in the American Empire of the Early Twentieth Century
Empires are built around the control of information, with an often-overlooked aspect of empire building being the construction of tools of reference. These tools incorporate in summary form the multiplicity of inscriptions that are a product of the empire’s epistemological operations. In order to shed some light on this face of empire, this article focuses on three readings of the minor forest products bulletins published by the Bureau of Forestr…
Producing Malaya: The Photography of Carl A. Gibson-Hill
Much has been written on the subject of colonial photography but, despite the importance of British Malaya to the British Empire, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. In this article I present an analysis of Malaya, a book of photographs taken by Carl A. Gibson-Hill with an accompanying text written by Gerald Hawkins. Gibson-Hill, a former director of the Raffles (now National) Museum of Singapore photographed the region in the …
The early years of Philippine Studies , 1953 to 1966
The academic journal has been a key element of the scholarly world for some time and as a key component of this world it deserves historical examination. But this has not often been forthcoming, especially for regions of the world outside the Anglo-American core. In this article I examine the content of the early years of Philippine Studies . Founded in 1953, it has survived and prospered up to the present day as a vehicle for scholarly studies o…
Slow and Steady Wins the Race: An Analysis of Contemporary Children’s Publishers in the Philippines
The American colonial state on display: The Philippine Library exhibit at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
In 1915 San Francisco hosted the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Included among the exhibits was one produced by James Robertson, the librarian of the Philippine Library. This exhibit fulfilled a number of functions. It directly tapped into one of the main discourses the exhibition's organisers wished to promote – the superiority of the people of the United States in comparison to the supposedly enfeebled Spanish society that had been dispossessed of …
An Excerpt from Carl Gibson-Hill: Boats, Birds, Photography, and History in Late-Colonial Malaya
An Excerpt from Carl Gibson-Hill: Boats, Birds, Photography, and History in Late-Colonial Malaya Brendan Luyt Ed. Note. Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill edited JMBRAS throughout the 1950s, and made notable contributions to photography, ornithology, museology, and the writing of Malayan history. In another era, Gibson-Hill might have been accounted a major figure in colonial scholarship, but he lived in Singapore at a time when British authorities were …
A golden age of library development: The social and political context of the Philippine Library in Manila in the early years of the twentieth century
In this article I demonstrate that the Philippine Library in Manila fulfilled both public and national library roles during the early years of the American colonial regime. I also link these roles to a wider social and political context. The colonial government was unable to rule as it wished in the Philippines. The heavy resistance it faced at the dawn of its regime, resistance which continued throughout the American occupation, meant that it ha…
The Lumberman and the lumber industry in the 1950s Philippines
In 1954, a new Philippine trade periodical published its first issue, one of many to follow. The Lumberman , as well as providing a wealth of detail about the early postwar logging and lumber industry in the Philippines, also records a sustained attempt to imbue readers with a progressive forestry ethos capable of combating entrenched notions of the forests as wastelands and trees as a hindrance to civilisation. It would be easy to dismiss this p…
Printing in Early 20th Century Singapore: The Contrasting Fates of C. A. Ribeiro Company and Rickard Limited
The printing industry was extremely competitive in Singapore in the 1920s and 1930s. A few large firms, such as Fraser & Neave, occupied the top tier of the industry and achieved economies of scale through steady modernization and mechanization of equipment and operations. New entrants struggling to establish themselves created intense competitive pressure among smaller printing firms, and the Depression worsened the situation. To survive under s…
Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines
Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction of an imagined reader and the ties between that reader and the wider social context of their production, in this case neo-colonialism, the Cold War a…
Catering to the sailor-tourist in the early twentieth century Philippines: The Gob’s Guide to Manila
Who benefits from the idea of screen time
Public discourse surrounding children’s use of digital technologies centres on fears that excessive screen time harms development and well-being. Consequently, policymakers and organizations have introduced time-focused guidelines and advisories surrounding children and youth’s media use. In ethnographic work examining digital technology use in families of preschoolers, we found that parents often spoke about device use in guilt-ridden and shamef…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · History (12 works) · Philippine History and Culture (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)