Gordon Kuo Siong Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 384539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Kuo Siong Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon Kuo Siong |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN G K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore University of Technology and Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7046-0278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
More‐Than‐Debt: Affective Topologies of Buy‐Now‐Pay‐Later ( BNPL ) Platforms in Singapore
Buy‐now‐pay‐later (BNPL) services have rapidly expanded consumer credit access by enabling immediate consumption with interest‐free instalment payments. This paper argues that BNPL platforms operate as topological‐affective infrastructures that reconfigure indebtedness by simultaneously modulating spatial relations and felt intensities. Drawing on diaries and interviews with BNPL users in Singapore, the analysis reveals how platform mechanisms—au…
Feeling finance: Teaching financial geography through reflecting on lived experience
Discontent in the world city of Singapore
A burgeoning literature on ‘left behind’ places has emerged that captures the backlash against globalisation and highlights the locales that lag world cities. This paper integrates the ‘left behind’ and world cities literatures through the lens of discontent in the context of Singapore, using sentiment analysis and topic modelling as well as interviews with local professionals to unpack the multidimensional aspects of discontent. Focusing on the …
Summoning the digital investor: Fintech apps and the shaping of everyday financial subjectivities
With fintech investment apps providing convenience and round-the-clock access to financial markets on the go, investors are becoming more active in managing their financial lives through smartphones and other mobile devices. However, fintech investing's role in the financialization of everyday life remains unclear. Combining insights from Foucauldian governmentality and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article positions fintech brokerag…
Global Fintech Revolution: Practice, Policy, and Regulation
In recent years, the rapidly evolving financial technology (fintech) sector has undergone a significant transformation, impacting traditional banking practices, consumer behaviors, and regulatory f
Playing for keeps: Digital labor and blockchain precarity in play-to-earn gaming
Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic
Utilising a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.
Human capital requirements in Singapore's international financial centre
International financial centres (IFCs) are regarded as important nodes in governing global flows of money and capital. With increased globalization and rapid technological changes, the rivalry among IFCs has further intensified competition for financial labour—as a concentrated pool of highly skilled finance workers in an open and flexible labour market is crucial to sustaining the competitive dynamics of these urban financial hotspots. This stud…
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation efforts in many countries as they try to contain the virus. With the physical handling of cash posing as a potential virus transmission risk, digital payments have become important in the urgent transition to a cashless society and a key feature of smart city projects. Critical analyses have typically framed smart cities as neoliberalist developmental projects that see the partnering of the sta…
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's Covid-19 contact-tracing initiatives
Effective social data governance rests on a bedrock of social support. Without securing trust from the populace whose information is being collected, analyzed, and deployed, policies on which such data are based will be undermined by a lack of public confidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization and datafication by governments for the purposes of contact tracing and epidemiological investigation. However, concerns about surveil…
Democratizing finance with Robinhood: Financial infrastructure, interface design and platform capitalism
It is widely claimed that financial technology democratizes financial access and promotes financial inclusion. This paper challenges this dominant narrative of financial technology using the popular US-based mobile investing platform Robinhood as a case study. Analyzing press articles on Robinhood and regulatory filings of online brokerages, the concepts of financial infrastructures and platforms are used to unpack the capitalist logics that driv…
Robo-advisors and the financialization of lay investors
Social power, offshore financial intermediaries and a network regulatory imaginary
Democratizing finance with Robinhood: Financial infrastructure, interface design and platform capitalism
It is widely claimed that financial technology democratizes financial access and promotes financial inclusion. This paper challenges this dominant narrative of financial technology using the popular US-based mobile investing platform Robinhood as a case study. Analyzing press articles on Robinhood and regulatory filings of online brokerages, the concepts of financial infrastructures and platforms are used to unpack the capitalist logics that driv…
Robo-advisors and the financialization of lay investors
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation efforts in many countries as they try to contain the virus. With the physical handling of cash posing as a potential virus transmission risk, digital payments have become important in the urgent transition to a cashless society and a key feature of smart city projects. Critical analyses have typically framed smart cities as neoliberalist developmental projects that see the partnering of the sta…
Social power, offshore financial intermediaries and a network regulatory imaginary
Summoning the digital investor: Fintech apps and the shaping of everyday financial subjectivities
With fintech investment apps providing convenience and round-the-clock access to financial markets on the go, investors are becoming more active in managing their financial lives through smartphones and other mobile devices. However, fintech investing's role in the financialization of everyday life remains unclear. Combining insights from Foucauldian governmentality and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article positions fintech brokerag…
Social power, offshore financial intermediaries and a network regulatory imaginary
Robo-advisors and the financialization of lay investors
Democratizing finance with Robinhood: Financial infrastructure, interface design and platform capitalism
It is widely claimed that financial technology democratizes financial access and promotes financial inclusion. This paper challenges this dominant narrative of financial technology using the popular US-based mobile investing platform Robinhood as a case study. Analyzing press articles on Robinhood and regulatory filings of online brokerages, the concepts of financial infrastructures and platforms are used to unpack the capitalist logics that driv…
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation efforts in many countries as they try to contain the virus. With the physical handling of cash posing as a potential virus transmission risk, digital payments have become important in the urgent transition to a cashless society and a key feature of smart city projects. Critical analyses have typically framed smart cities as neoliberalist developmental projects that see the partnering of the sta…
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's Covid-19 contact-tracing initiatives
Effective social data governance rests on a bedrock of social support. Without securing trust from the populace whose information is being collected, analyzed, and deployed, policies on which such data are based will be undermined by a lack of public confidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization and datafication by governments for the purposes of contact tracing and epidemiological investigation. However, concerns about surveil…
Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic
Utilising a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.
Human capital requirements in Singapore's international financial centre
International financial centres (IFCs) are regarded as important nodes in governing global flows of money and capital. With increased globalization and rapid technological changes, the rivalry among IFCs has further intensified competition for financial labour—as a concentrated pool of highly skilled finance workers in an open and flexible labour market is crucial to sustaining the competitive dynamics of these urban financial hotspots. This stud…
Playing for keeps: Digital labor and blockchain precarity in play-to-earn gaming
Discontent in the world city of Singapore
A burgeoning literature on ‘left behind’ places has emerged that captures the backlash against globalisation and highlights the locales that lag world cities. This paper integrates the ‘left behind’ and world cities literatures through the lens of discontent in the context of Singapore, using sentiment analysis and topic modelling as well as interviews with local professionals to unpack the multidimensional aspects of discontent. Focusing on the …
Summoning the digital investor: Fintech apps and the shaping of everyday financial subjectivities
With fintech investment apps providing convenience and round-the-clock access to financial markets on the go, investors are becoming more active in managing their financial lives through smartphones and other mobile devices. However, fintech investing's role in the financialization of everyday life remains unclear. Combining insights from Foucauldian governmentality and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article positions fintech brokerag…
Global Fintech Revolution: Practice, Policy, and Regulation
In recent years, the rapidly evolving financial technology (fintech) sector has undergone a significant transformation, impacting traditional banking practices, consumer behaviors, and regulatory f
More‐Than‐Debt: Affective Topologies of Buy‐Now‐Pay‐Later ( BNPL ) Platforms in Singapore
Buy‐now‐pay‐later (BNPL) services have rapidly expanded consumer credit access by enabling immediate consumption with interest‐free instalment payments. This paper argues that BNPL platforms operate as topological‐affective infrastructures that reconfigure indebtedness by simultaneously modulating spatial relations and felt intensities. Drawing on diaries and interviews with BNPL users in Singapore, the analysis reveals how platform mechanisms—au…
Feeling finance: Teaching financial geography through reflecting on lived experience
Business (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Finance (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (4 works)