Siew Ying Shee
Biographic Data
| ID | 392189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siew Ying Shee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siew Ying |
| FAMILY NAME | Shee |
| SIGNATURE | SHEE S Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7674-7448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of project wolbachia in Singapore
This paper introduces the idea of 'experimental failure' to critically interrogate the limits of engineering biological systems for urban governance. Whilst experimentation through projects related to smart cities and eco-cities has garnered significant attention, biotechnical experiments--which manipulate living organisms through technology--remain underexplored. Unlike interventions leveraging non-living, inanimate systems, engineering life mus…
(Un)mapping the Punjab Onto Singapore's Gurdwaras: Diasporic Territorialities and Decolonial Spaces of Sikh Socialisation
This paper explores an alternative territorial sensibility – ‘diasporic territoriality’ – that is rooted in the search for belonging outside of a putative ‘homeland’ amongst dis/placed communities. Drawing on ethnographic research with 26 members of Singapore’s Sikh diaspora, we examine the everyday spaces of diasporic belonging that simultaneously reproduce and resist colonial imaginings of Punjabi territory. Many first-generation diasporas cont…
Conditional inclusion in the sensory contact zone: Coexisting with desis in Singapore's gurdwaras
Lived religion in a digital age: Technology, Affect and the Pervasive Space-Times of 'New' Religious Praxis
This paper explores how Christian practices of prayer are being reconfigured through digital media in Singapore. Although digital technologies are an area of burgeoning interest amongst social and cultural geographers, the ways in which these technologies reconfigure the space-times of religious praxis and engender new affective relations or subjectivities of religion have not yet been embraced. This paper fills the lacuna by bringing existing st…
When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore
By thinking with and through Buddhist cosmology, this paper explores the emergence of an ethical sensibility—what we call planetary cosmopolitanism—that is based on not just a spatially expanded ethic of care to ecological worlds, but also a temporally extended sense of justice to the future Earth. This transtemporal sense of ethical becoming reflects how the possibility of future ‘rebirth’ and accountability for past actions can motivate new eco…
Eating to become 'good' citizens: Exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore
This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people's everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of 'good' eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-forma…
Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore
Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: Navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore
Recent studies on emotional geographies of physical activity have furnished valuable insights into the affective and emotional intensities of space in mediating physical activity engagements. Nevertheless, I suggest there is potential in departing from an ahistorical treatment of emotion to critically consider how people’s health engagements are mediated by their sticky emotional relations to space stretching over multiple space-times. I bring th…
"Doing it for the 'gram"? The representational politics of popular humanitarianism
The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care
Lived religion in a digital age: Technology, Affect and the Pervasive Space-Times of 'New' Religious Praxis
This paper explores how Christian practices of prayer are being reconfigured through digital media in Singapore. Although digital technologies are an area of burgeoning interest amongst social and cultural geographers, the ways in which these technologies reconfigure the space-times of religious praxis and engender new affective relations or subjectivities of religion have not yet been embraced. This paper fills the lacuna by bringing existing st…
When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore
By thinking with and through Buddhist cosmology, this paper explores the emergence of an ethical sensibility—what we call planetary cosmopolitanism—that is based on not just a spatially expanded ethic of care to ecological worlds, but also a temporally extended sense of justice to the future Earth. This transtemporal sense of ethical becoming reflects how the possibility of future ‘rebirth’ and accountability for past actions can motivate new eco…
The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care
"Doing it for the 'gram"? The representational politics of popular humanitarianism
Conditional inclusion in the sensory contact zone: Coexisting with desis in Singapore's gurdwaras
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of project wolbachia in Singapore
This paper introduces the idea of 'experimental failure' to critically interrogate the limits of engineering biological systems for urban governance. Whilst experimentation through projects related to smart cities and eco-cities has garnered significant attention, biotechnical experiments--which manipulate living organisms through technology--remain underexplored. Unlike interventions leveraging non-living, inanimate systems, engineering life mus…
Eating to become 'good' citizens: Exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore
This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people's everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of 'good' eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-forma…
Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: Navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore
Recent studies on emotional geographies of physical activity have furnished valuable insights into the affective and emotional intensities of space in mediating physical activity engagements. Nevertheless, I suggest there is potential in departing from an ahistorical treatment of emotion to critically consider how people’s health engagements are mediated by their sticky emotional relations to space stretching over multiple space-times. I bring th…
(Un)mapping the Punjab Onto Singapore's Gurdwaras: Diasporic Territorialities and Decolonial Spaces of Sikh Socialisation
This paper explores an alternative territorial sensibility – ‘diasporic territoriality’ – that is rooted in the search for belonging outside of a putative ‘homeland’ amongst dis/placed communities. Drawing on ethnographic research with 26 members of Singapore’s Sikh diaspora, we examine the everyday spaces of diasporic belonging that simultaneously reproduce and resist colonial imaginings of Punjabi territory. Many first-generation diasporas cont…
Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore
Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: Navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore
Recent studies on emotional geographies of physical activity have furnished valuable insights into the affective and emotional intensities of space in mediating physical activity engagements. Nevertheless, I suggest there is potential in departing from an ahistorical treatment of emotion to critically consider how people’s health engagements are mediated by their sticky emotional relations to space stretching over multiple space-times. I bring th…
"Doing it for the 'gram"? The representational politics of popular humanitarianism
The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care
Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore
When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore
By thinking with and through Buddhist cosmology, this paper explores the emergence of an ethical sensibility—what we call planetary cosmopolitanism—that is based on not just a spatially expanded ethic of care to ecological worlds, but also a temporally extended sense of justice to the future Earth. This transtemporal sense of ethical becoming reflects how the possibility of future ‘rebirth’ and accountability for past actions can motivate new eco…
Eating to become 'good' citizens: Exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore
This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people's everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of 'good' eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-forma…
Lived religion in a digital age: Technology, Affect and the Pervasive Space-Times of 'New' Religious Praxis
This paper explores how Christian practices of prayer are being reconfigured through digital media in Singapore. Although digital technologies are an area of burgeoning interest amongst social and cultural geographers, the ways in which these technologies reconfigure the space-times of religious praxis and engender new affective relations or subjectivities of religion have not yet been embraced. This paper fills the lacuna by bringing existing st…
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of project wolbachia in Singapore
This paper introduces the idea of 'experimental failure' to critically interrogate the limits of engineering biological systems for urban governance. Whilst experimentation through projects related to smart cities and eco-cities has garnered significant attention, biotechnical experiments--which manipulate living organisms through technology--remain underexplored. Unlike interventions leveraging non-living, inanimate systems, engineering life mus…
(Un)mapping the Punjab Onto Singapore's Gurdwaras: Diasporic Territorialities and Decolonial Spaces of Sikh Socialisation
This paper explores an alternative territorial sensibility – ‘diasporic territoriality’ – that is rooted in the search for belonging outside of a putative ‘homeland’ amongst dis/placed communities. Drawing on ethnographic research with 26 members of Singapore’s Sikh diaspora, we examine the everyday spaces of diasporic belonging that simultaneously reproduce and resist colonial imaginings of Punjabi territory. Many first-generation diasporas cont…
Conditional inclusion in the sensory contact zone: Coexisting with desis in Singapore's gurdwaras
Sociology (8 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)