Jason Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3378-0333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the November 1963 coup in Saigon
The November 1963 coup in Saigon resulted in the murder of President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Nhu. While there has been research work done about the coup, there has not been a study of the impact of the coup from a Taiwanese perspective. The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) had forged closer diplomatic ties through Taiwanese economic aid and technical assistance. This paper traces the investigations by the Taiwane…
Creating a Compliant Civil Service for Nation Building in Singapore, 1959–1984
By the time Singapore celebrated 25 years of nation building in 1984, the city-state was being praised for its “good governance” and economic achievements. However, what has constantly been overlooked is that these achievements were the result of a compliant civil service. After the People’s Action Party (PAP) was elected to office in 1959, it cracked down on its leftist political opponents and the press, while introducing “attitudinal reform” of…
An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family ed. by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan (review)
Reviewed by: An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family ed. by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan Jason Lim An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family. Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan, eds. Singapore: World Scientific, 2023. 410 pp. ISBN 9789811257964 An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family, edited by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan, is a unique collection o…
Planning in the “LGBTQ Capital”: Choreographing Transgender In and Out of Policy
Greater consideration of transgender communities within planning has been called for from research highlighting their absence in policy and practice. However, there is little work that outlines how trans is considered within current planning practice. This article presents an empirical case study of how trans becomes articulated into city-level policy and practice in Brighton & Hove, the “LGBTQ capital” of England. A poststructural approach is us…
Life from the fragments: Ambivalence, critique, and minoritarian affect
In this commentary, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford. We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable dis…
A Tolerant Society Is the Way Forward: Exposing Chinese Chauvinism in Singapore, 1959–1979
Official narratives in Singapore have included the crackdown by the ruling People’s Action Party ( pap ) government under Lee Kuan Yew against the Chinese chauvinists on the city-state’s road to nationhood. From 1959 to 1976, the Lee government believed that Chinese chauvinism came from three sources: a population that was majority ethnic Chinese in Singapore, pro-communist organizations that exploited Chinese chauvinism for their own ends, and i…
Sexual(ities that) progress: Introduction
This piece introduces the papers for the Sexual(ities that) Progress special issue. It arises out of two sessions at the 2017 American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, where scholars critically interrogated assumptions of progress and the ideals and models that follow from understanding certain spaces and places as ‘leading the way’ in terms of sexual and gender inclusions. In this paper, we outline some of the key debates and how pa…
Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics
Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015
This book critically reflects on Singapore’s 50 years of independence. Contributors interrogate a selected range of topics on Singapore’s history, culture and society – including the constitution, education, religion and race – and thereby facilitate a better understanding of its shared national past. Central to this book is an examination of how Singaporeans have learnt to adapt and change through PAP government policies since independence in 19…
Of “Sluts” and “Arseholes”: Antagonistic Desire and the Production of Sexual Vigilance
This article examines a contemporary antagonism in gendered safety discourses—the imperative to be free in public space against the obligation to be safe and “properly” feminine. We argue that this produces (and is produced by) contemporary rape culture, which might be contested through recourse to an agonistic ethic. Using qualitative interview data, we examine how participants contest victim-blaming discourses, while limiting how far they will …
Popular Nationalism in the Wake of the 2011 National Elections in Singapore
This article is about the contestation of two different forms of nationalism in Singapore during and after two elections in 2011. Manufactured nationalism is top-down, state-defined and economically driven, concerned mainly about accumulation of national wealth through globalization that would eventually ‘trickle down’ to the masses. This view is promoted by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). The PAP projects Singapore as a state born out of…
Modern Chinese history; Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan and Viet Nam
Modern Chinese history; Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan and Viet Nam." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 137–138
Democratizing Taiwan
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History is based on a series of lectures given in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States between 2004 and 2010. The five chapters and the Appendix
Chinese circulations: Capital, commodities and networks in Southeast Asia
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty groundbreaking essays …
Hijabs, Hoodies and Hotpants’; negotiating the ‘Slut’ in SlutWalk
Harsh V. Pant. China’s Rising Global Profile: The Great Power Tradition. Brighton, Portland, and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press. 2011
It's Something You Just Have to Ignore: Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Safety Beyond Hate Crime Paradigms
In common with the experiences of many other groups - and despite changing legal landscapes and increasing recognition within social policy of different groups' needs - LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) people continue to face discrimination and abuse, and improving safety continues to be a key touchstone for policy makers and practitioners engaging with LGBT lives. Based on evidence from Count Me In Too, an LGBT participatory research proj…
Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea: Overseas Chinese Merchants in the Fujian-Singapore Trade, 1920-1960
Current historical work on the international tea trade has focused on the Sino-British trade and the impact of capitalism and modern technology on tea production in India and Ceylon. These studies have overlooked the changes that were afoot in the Fujian tea industry and the problems with conducting the trade with the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Using the Fujian-Singapore trade as an illustration and drawing on Chinese-language archival m…
Trans lives in the ‘gay capital of the UK’
Recent geographical interventions have begun to question the power relations among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, challenging assumptions that LGBT communities have homogeneous needs or are not characterised by hierarchies of power. Such interventions have included examinations of LGBT scenes as sites of exclusion for trans people. This article augments academic explorations of trans lives by focusing on ‘the gay capital’ of the UK, Bri…
Immanent Politics: Thinking Race and Ethnicity through Affect and Machinism
In this paper, I attempt to rethink race and ethnicity through Deleuzo-Guattarian conceptions of affect and machinism. Considered in the context of a theorisation of machinism, affect might be thought of as not only underwriting difference and contingency, but as simultaneously affording the potential for bodies to be organised into proper relations. I suggest an understanding of the virtual as impure, full of bundles of potential functions, an u…
Senses of Gender
This paper explores the testimony of trans respondents to Count Me In Too (a participatory action research project that examined LGBT lives in Brighton and Hove), and this analysis occasions the development of innovative concepts for thinking about understandings and experiences of trans phenomena and gender. The analysis starts by exploring the diversity of trans identities before considering evidence of how health services pathologise trans exp…
The Education Concerns and Political Outlook of Lim Keng Lian (1893–1968)
Lim Keng Lian (1893–1968) was a prominent tea merchant in Singapore from the mid-1920s until his death. He also concerned himself with the educational needs of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya. During the 1930s and 1940s, he worked tirelessly to raise overseas Chinese awareness of the plight of China. As a supporter of the Kuomintang, he made his mark as a leading overseas Chinese representative in the party, remaining loyal even after the KMT…
Just Asking: Capturing Memories as a Child, Student, and Historian
If my family stories can be counted as oral history, then my introduction to this means of extracting personal memories came at a very early age. When I was in my early teenage years, my grandmother started telling me of what my grandparents had to put up with when the Japanese occupied Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945. My parents also told me of life in Singapore from their earliest recollection of the mid-1950s to the time when they …
Immanent Politics: Thinking Race and Ethnicity through Affect and Machinism
In this paper, I attempt to rethink race and ethnicity through Deleuzo-Guattarian conceptions of affect and machinism. Considered in the context of a theorisation of machinism, affect might be thought of as not only underwriting difference and contingency, but as simultaneously affording the potential for bodies to be organised into proper relations. I suggest an understanding of the virtual as impure, full of bundles of potential functions, an u…
Trans lives in the ‘gay capital of the UK’
Recent geographical interventions have begun to question the power relations among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, challenging assumptions that LGBT communities have homogeneous needs or are not characterised by hierarchies of power. Such interventions have included examinations of LGBT scenes as sites of exclusion for trans people. This article augments academic explorations of trans lives by focusing on ‘the gay capital’ of the UK, Bri…
It's Something You Just Have to Ignore: Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Safety Beyond Hate Crime Paradigms
In common with the experiences of many other groups - and despite changing legal landscapes and increasing recognition within social policy of different groups' needs - LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) people continue to face discrimination and abuse, and improving safety continues to be a key touchstone for policy makers and practitioners engaging with LGBT lives. Based on evidence from Count Me In Too, an LGBT participatory research proj…
Hijabs, Hoodies and Hotpants’; negotiating the ‘Slut’ in SlutWalk
Sexual(ities that) progress: Introduction
This piece introduces the papers for the Sexual(ities that) Progress special issue. It arises out of two sessions at the 2017 American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, where scholars critically interrogated assumptions of progress and the ideals and models that follow from understanding certain spaces and places as ‘leading the way’ in terms of sexual and gender inclusions. In this paper, we outline some of the key debates and how pa…
Of “Sluts” and “Arseholes”: Antagonistic Desire and the Production of Sexual Vigilance
This article examines a contemporary antagonism in gendered safety discourses—the imperative to be free in public space against the obligation to be safe and “properly” feminine. We argue that this produces (and is produced by) contemporary rape culture, which might be contested through recourse to an agonistic ethic. Using qualitative interview data, we examine how participants contest victim-blaming discourses, while limiting how far they will …
Senses of Gender
This paper explores the testimony of trans respondents to Count Me In Too (a participatory action research project that examined LGBT lives in Brighton and Hove), and this analysis occasions the development of innovative concepts for thinking about understandings and experiences of trans phenomena and gender. The analysis starts by exploring the diversity of trans identities before considering evidence of how health services pathologise trans exp…
Life from the fragments: Ambivalence, critique, and minoritarian affect
In this commentary, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford. We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable dis…
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History is based on a series of lectures given in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States between 2004 and 2010. The five chapters and the Appendix
A Tolerant Society Is the Way Forward: Exposing Chinese Chauvinism in Singapore, 1959–1979
Official narratives in Singapore have included the crackdown by the ruling People’s Action Party ( pap ) government under Lee Kuan Yew against the Chinese chauvinists on the city-state’s road to nationhood. From 1959 to 1976, the Lee government believed that Chinese chauvinism came from three sources: a population that was majority ethnic Chinese in Singapore, pro-communist organizations that exploited Chinese chauvinism for their own ends, and i…
Chinese circulations: Capital, commodities and networks in Southeast Asia
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty groundbreaking essays …
Just Asking: Capturing Memories as a Child, Student, and Historian
If my family stories can be counted as oral history, then my introduction to this means of extracting personal memories came at a very early age. When I was in my early teenage years, my grandmother started telling me of what my grandparents had to put up with when the Japanese occupied Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945. My parents also told me of life in Singapore from their earliest recollection of the mid-1950s to the time when they …
The Education Concerns and Political Outlook of Lim Keng Lian (1893–1968)
Lim Keng Lian (1893–1968) was a prominent tea merchant in Singapore from the mid-1920s until his death. He also concerned himself with the educational needs of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya. During the 1930s and 1940s, he worked tirelessly to raise overseas Chinese awareness of the plight of China. As a supporter of the Kuomintang, he made his mark as a leading overseas Chinese representative in the party, remaining loyal even after the KMT…
Senses of Gender
This paper explores the testimony of trans respondents to Count Me In Too (a participatory action research project that examined LGBT lives in Brighton and Hove), and this analysis occasions the development of innovative concepts for thinking about understandings and experiences of trans phenomena and gender. The analysis starts by exploring the diversity of trans identities before considering evidence of how health services pathologise trans exp…
Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea: Overseas Chinese Merchants in the Fujian-Singapore Trade, 1920-1960
Current historical work on the international tea trade has focused on the Sino-British trade and the impact of capitalism and modern technology on tea production in India and Ceylon. These studies have overlooked the changes that were afoot in the Fujian tea industry and the problems with conducting the trade with the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Using the Fujian-Singapore trade as an illustration and drawing on Chinese-language archival m…
Trans lives in the ‘gay capital of the UK’
Recent geographical interventions have begun to question the power relations among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, challenging assumptions that LGBT communities have homogeneous needs or are not characterised by hierarchies of power. Such interventions have included examinations of LGBT scenes as sites of exclusion for trans people. This article augments academic explorations of trans lives by focusing on ‘the gay capital’ of the UK, Bri…
Immanent Politics: Thinking Race and Ethnicity through Affect and Machinism
In this paper, I attempt to rethink race and ethnicity through Deleuzo-Guattarian conceptions of affect and machinism. Considered in the context of a theorisation of machinism, affect might be thought of as not only underwriting difference and contingency, but as simultaneously affording the potential for bodies to be organised into proper relations. I suggest an understanding of the virtual as impure, full of bundles of potential functions, an u…
Harsh V. Pant. China’s Rising Global Profile: The Great Power Tradition. Brighton, Portland, and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press. 2011
It's Something You Just Have to Ignore: Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Safety Beyond Hate Crime Paradigms
In common with the experiences of many other groups - and despite changing legal landscapes and increasing recognition within social policy of different groups' needs - LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) people continue to face discrimination and abuse, and improving safety continues to be a key touchstone for policy makers and practitioners engaging with LGBT lives. Based on evidence from Count Me In Too, an LGBT participatory research proj…
Hijabs, Hoodies and Hotpants’; negotiating the ‘Slut’ in SlutWalk
Democratizing Taiwan
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History is based on a series of lectures given in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States between 2004 and 2010. The five chapters and the Appendix
Chinese circulations: Capital, commodities and networks in Southeast Asia
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty groundbreaking essays …
Of “Sluts” and “Arseholes”: Antagonistic Desire and the Production of Sexual Vigilance
This article examines a contemporary antagonism in gendered safety discourses—the imperative to be free in public space against the obligation to be safe and “properly” feminine. We argue that this produces (and is produced by) contemporary rape culture, which might be contested through recourse to an agonistic ethic. Using qualitative interview data, we examine how participants contest victim-blaming discourses, while limiting how far they will …
Popular Nationalism in the Wake of the 2011 National Elections in Singapore
This article is about the contestation of two different forms of nationalism in Singapore during and after two elections in 2011. Manufactured nationalism is top-down, state-defined and economically driven, concerned mainly about accumulation of national wealth through globalization that would eventually ‘trickle down’ to the masses. This view is promoted by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). The PAP projects Singapore as a state born out of…
Modern Chinese history; Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan and Viet Nam
Modern Chinese history; Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan and Viet Nam." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 137–138
Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015
This book critically reflects on Singapore’s 50 years of independence. Contributors interrogate a selected range of topics on Singapore’s history, culture and society – including the constitution, education, religion and race – and thereby facilitate a better understanding of its shared national past. Central to this book is an examination of how Singaporeans have learnt to adapt and change through PAP government policies since independence in 19…
Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics
Sexual(ities that) progress: Introduction
This piece introduces the papers for the Sexual(ities that) Progress special issue. It arises out of two sessions at the 2017 American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, where scholars critically interrogated assumptions of progress and the ideals and models that follow from understanding certain spaces and places as ‘leading the way’ in terms of sexual and gender inclusions. In this paper, we outline some of the key debates and how pa…
Life from the fragments: Ambivalence, critique, and minoritarian affect
In this commentary, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford. We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable dis…
A Tolerant Society Is the Way Forward: Exposing Chinese Chauvinism in Singapore, 1959–1979
Official narratives in Singapore have included the crackdown by the ruling People’s Action Party ( pap ) government under Lee Kuan Yew against the Chinese chauvinists on the city-state’s road to nationhood. From 1959 to 1976, the Lee government believed that Chinese chauvinism came from three sources: a population that was majority ethnic Chinese in Singapore, pro-communist organizations that exploited Chinese chauvinism for their own ends, and i…
An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family ed. by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan (review)
Reviewed by: An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family ed. by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan Jason Lim An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family. Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan, eds. Singapore: World Scientific, 2023. 410 pp. ISBN 9789811257964 An Illustrious Heritage: The History of Tan Tock Seng and Family, edited by Kua Bak Lim, Lim How Seng and Roney Tan, is a unique collection o…
Planning in the “LGBTQ Capital”: Choreographing Transgender In and Out of Policy
Greater consideration of transgender communities within planning has been called for from research highlighting their absence in policy and practice. However, there is little work that outlines how trans is considered within current planning practice. This article presents an empirical case study of how trans becomes articulated into city-level policy and practice in Brighton & Hove, the “LGBTQ capital” of England. A poststructural approach is us…
The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the November 1963 coup in Saigon
The November 1963 coup in Saigon resulted in the murder of President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Nhu. While there has been research work done about the coup, there has not been a study of the impact of the coup from a Taiwanese perspective. The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) had forged closer diplomatic ties through Taiwanese economic aid and technical assistance. This paper traces the investigations by the Taiwane…
Creating a Compliant Civil Service for Nation Building in Singapore, 1959–1984
By the time Singapore celebrated 25 years of nation building in 1984, the city-state was being praised for its “good governance” and economic achievements. However, what has constantly been overlooked is that these achievements were the result of a compliant civil service. After the People’s Action Party (PAP) was elected to office in 1959, it cracked down on its leftist political opponents and the press, while introducing “attitudinal reform” of…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · China (8 works) · History (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · History (7 works)