Z L Rocha
Biographic Data
| ID | 45843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Z L Rocha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Z L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rocha |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHA Z L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0284-7144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction
We are very pleased to publish this commemorative Special Issue, dedicated to the life and work of Peter J [...]
Soul food or Indian food, depending on what spices you chose”
Not Indian, Not African
This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with immigrants of South Asian origin, from Fiji, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and East Africa. New Zealand’s system of ethnic classification relies on self-ide…
Applied and Clinical Sociology in Aotearoa New Zealand
Orang Cina Bukan Cina
This paper explores how being Peranakan is related to (not) being Chinese in Singapore, intertwining descent, racial categorization, cultural practice and choice. Tracing the complex history of Peranakan identity, it highlights how the social construction of race has created a hybrid yet ethnically Chinese identity, with a rich cultural heritage largely relegated to the past. Drawing on theories of racial formation and the racial state, this stud…
Past and present currents of sociology
This review paper marks the 70th anniversary of Current Sociology, the first journal founded by the International Sociological Association (ISA). The past seven decades have been a time of immense change within sociology and around the world, and the shifts within the structure and content of the journal mirror these transformations. Current Sociology today is a vastly different publication to the bibliography focused journal of 1952, and remains…
Clinical Sociology and Mixedness
Research on mixed racial and ethnic identities has developed rapidly over the past decades, increasing in theoretical scope and depth, and exploring mixedness across a growing range of national and social contexts. Recent research has highlighted the huge variations and shifts in conceptions of mixedness around the world, and the different pathways to understanding what it means to be mixed through migration, development, postcolonialism and diff…
Hierarchies of mixedness
As a mixed yet bounded racial category, Eurasian identity in Singapore presents a key case in exploring mixed-race racisms and hierarchies based around class, race and migration. Racial categorizations in postcolonial Singapore draw heavily on colonial racial hierarchies, and the shifting boundaries around Eurasianness illustrate the performative nature of mixed identities, and the politics of being recognized/misrecognized as mixed, not-mixed, o…
True blue’ or part Peranakan? Peranakan Chinese identity, mixedness and authenticity in Singapore
While no longer associated with colonial economic and political privilege, Peranakan Chinese identity is now often viewed as an ‘authentic’ heritage in contemporary Singapore that is made visible through hybrid cultural and material markers. But for the Peranakan community, what does it mean to be authentically Peranakan in post-colonial Singapore? This paper explores concepts of hybridity and authenticity for Peranakan individuals, highlighting …
Tracing Genealogies of Mixedness
Social representations theory provides a key lens through which to approach mixed racial and ethnic identities. The concept and contextual histories of “mixedness” highlight how meanings are ascribed and constructed, and social representations of mixed identities shape and are shaped by what it means to be mixed. This paper explores mixedness in Singapore from a social representations perspective, drawing out and comparing the state representatio…
Family Matters
This paper tracks and explores the generational changes in the dynamics of racial identity and identification of Eurasians in Singapore, as reflected in family life. Eurasians are a historic mixed-descent community originating in the mixing of European and Asian cultures in the region since the 16th century. By analysing the embodied enactment and negotiation of mixed identities intergenerationally in the spheres of marriage and language choices,…
Managing the complexities of race
This paper explores the structuring of Singapore’s race classification system, and how Eurasians fit into and work around the Chinese–Malay–Indian–Other (CMIO) framework in everyday life. Racial and ethnic identities and classifications play a prominent role in Singapore, a lingering legacy of colonial population management, and a quotidian part of life for Singaporeans of all backgrounds. Race in Singapore is not an abstract category for analysi…
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification
Strict versus flexible categorizations of mixedness
Classifying and recording population data along racial and ethnic lines is common in many multiethnic societies. Singapore and New Zealand both use racial and ethnic categories in their population records and national censuses, although on different scales, using different methodologies and to different ends. Mixed race identities are particularly difficult to classify within traditionally singular racial categories, and each country has dealt wi…
Mixing race, nation, and ethnicity in Asia and Australasia
10.1080/13504630.2018.1500162
Re-viewing Race and Mixedness
Research into mixed race around the world has increased over the past years, with significant developments in theorizing and case studies in different contexts. However, mainstream mixed race theory remains anchored in the West, geographically and conceptually. This paper seeks to explore the meanings and classifications of mixed race around the globe. It looks at the concept of mixed race in Asia and the Pacific, specifically exploring the alter…
Stretching out the categories
Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and new conceptions of mixedness are challenging such classification along racial lines. Although contemporary Singapore is extremely diverse, the underlying ideology of multiracialism remains grounded in distinctly racialized groups, leaving little space for more complex individual identities. This paper explore…
Identity, dislocation and belonging
With over 10% of the population identifying with multiple ethnic groups, identities in New Zealand are increasingly complex. This article explores identifications of individuals of mixed Chinese and European descent: the ways in which personal location, classification and race influence feelings of belonging within and between multiple ethnic groups. The fluidity and diversity of the New Zealand context and the resulting positioning of ‘mixed rac…
(Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of state categorisation on understandings of ‘mixed race’. Processes of racial formation have undergone significant shifts over time, from initial colonial understandings of racialised domination and hierarchy, to present‐day narratives of a multicultural society within a bicultural national framework. Connecting these narratives is a constant thread of racial different…
Multiplicity within Singularity
“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have develope…
Multiplicity within Singularity
“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have develope…
Stretching out the categories
Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and new conceptions of mixedness are challenging such classification along racial lines. Although contemporary Singapore is extremely diverse, the underlying ideology of multiracialism remains grounded in distinctly racialized groups, leaving little space for more complex individual identities. This paper explore…
Re-viewing Race and Mixedness
Research into mixed race around the world has increased over the past years, with significant developments in theorizing and case studies in different contexts. However, mainstream mixed race theory remains anchored in the West, geographically and conceptually. This paper seeks to explore the meanings and classifications of mixed race around the globe. It looks at the concept of mixed race in Asia and the Pacific, specifically exploring the alter…
Hierarchies of mixedness
As a mixed yet bounded racial category, Eurasian identity in Singapore presents a key case in exploring mixed-race racisms and hierarchies based around class, race and migration. Racial categorizations in postcolonial Singapore draw heavily on colonial racial hierarchies, and the shifting boundaries around Eurasianness illustrate the performative nature of mixed identities, and the politics of being recognized/misrecognized as mixed, not-mixed, o…
Managing the complexities of race
This paper explores the structuring of Singapore’s race classification system, and how Eurasians fit into and work around the Chinese–Malay–Indian–Other (CMIO) framework in everyday life. Racial and ethnic identities and classifications play a prominent role in Singapore, a lingering legacy of colonial population management, and a quotidian part of life for Singaporeans of all backgrounds. Race in Singapore is not an abstract category for analysi…
(Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of state categorisation on understandings of ‘mixed race’. Processes of racial formation have undergone significant shifts over time, from initial colonial understandings of racialised domination and hierarchy, to present‐day narratives of a multicultural society within a bicultural national framework. Connecting these narratives is a constant thread of racial different…
Mixing race, nation, and ethnicity in Asia and Australasia
10.1080/13504630.2018.1500162
Strict versus flexible categorizations of mixedness
Classifying and recording population data along racial and ethnic lines is common in many multiethnic societies. Singapore and New Zealand both use racial and ethnic categories in their population records and national censuses, although on different scales, using different methodologies and to different ends. Mixed race identities are particularly difficult to classify within traditionally singular racial categories, and each country has dealt wi…
Tracing Genealogies of Mixedness
Social representations theory provides a key lens through which to approach mixed racial and ethnic identities. The concept and contextual histories of “mixedness” highlight how meanings are ascribed and constructed, and social representations of mixed identities shape and are shaped by what it means to be mixed. This paper explores mixedness in Singapore from a social representations perspective, drawing out and comparing the state representatio…
Multiplicity within Singularity
“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have develope…
Identity, dislocation and belonging
With over 10% of the population identifying with multiple ethnic groups, identities in New Zealand are increasingly complex. This article explores identifications of individuals of mixed Chinese and European descent: the ways in which personal location, classification and race influence feelings of belonging within and between multiple ethnic groups. The fluidity and diversity of the New Zealand context and the resulting positioning of ‘mixed rac…
(Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of state categorisation on understandings of ‘mixed race’. Processes of racial formation have undergone significant shifts over time, from initial colonial understandings of racialised domination and hierarchy, to present‐day narratives of a multicultural society within a bicultural national framework. Connecting these narratives is a constant thread of racial different…
Stretching out the categories
Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and new conceptions of mixedness are challenging such classification along racial lines. Although contemporary Singapore is extremely diverse, the underlying ideology of multiracialism remains grounded in distinctly racialized groups, leaving little space for more complex individual identities. This paper explore…
Re-viewing Race and Mixedness
Research into mixed race around the world has increased over the past years, with significant developments in theorizing and case studies in different contexts. However, mainstream mixed race theory remains anchored in the West, geographically and conceptually. This paper seeks to explore the meanings and classifications of mixed race around the globe. It looks at the concept of mixed race in Asia and the Pacific, specifically exploring the alter…
Strict versus flexible categorizations of mixedness
Classifying and recording population data along racial and ethnic lines is common in many multiethnic societies. Singapore and New Zealand both use racial and ethnic categories in their population records and national censuses, although on different scales, using different methodologies and to different ends. Mixed race identities are particularly difficult to classify within traditionally singular racial categories, and each country has dealt wi…
Mixing race, nation, and ethnicity in Asia and Australasia
10.1080/13504630.2018.1500162
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification
Tracing Genealogies of Mixedness
Social representations theory provides a key lens through which to approach mixed racial and ethnic identities. The concept and contextual histories of “mixedness” highlight how meanings are ascribed and constructed, and social representations of mixed identities shape and are shaped by what it means to be mixed. This paper explores mixedness in Singapore from a social representations perspective, drawing out and comparing the state representatio…
Family Matters
This paper tracks and explores the generational changes in the dynamics of racial identity and identification of Eurasians in Singapore, as reflected in family life. Eurasians are a historic mixed-descent community originating in the mixing of European and Asian cultures in the region since the 16th century. By analysing the embodied enactment and negotiation of mixed identities intergenerationally in the spheres of marriage and language choices,…
Managing the complexities of race
This paper explores the structuring of Singapore’s race classification system, and how Eurasians fit into and work around the Chinese–Malay–Indian–Other (CMIO) framework in everyday life. Racial and ethnic identities and classifications play a prominent role in Singapore, a lingering legacy of colonial population management, and a quotidian part of life for Singaporeans of all backgrounds. Race in Singapore is not an abstract category for analysi…
Past and present currents of sociology
This review paper marks the 70th anniversary of Current Sociology, the first journal founded by the International Sociological Association (ISA). The past seven decades have been a time of immense change within sociology and around the world, and the shifts within the structure and content of the journal mirror these transformations. Current Sociology today is a vastly different publication to the bibliography focused journal of 1952, and remains…
Clinical Sociology and Mixedness
Research on mixed racial and ethnic identities has developed rapidly over the past decades, increasing in theoretical scope and depth, and exploring mixedness across a growing range of national and social contexts. Recent research has highlighted the huge variations and shifts in conceptions of mixedness around the world, and the different pathways to understanding what it means to be mixed through migration, development, postcolonialism and diff…
Hierarchies of mixedness
As a mixed yet bounded racial category, Eurasian identity in Singapore presents a key case in exploring mixed-race racisms and hierarchies based around class, race and migration. Racial categorizations in postcolonial Singapore draw heavily on colonial racial hierarchies, and the shifting boundaries around Eurasianness illustrate the performative nature of mixed identities, and the politics of being recognized/misrecognized as mixed, not-mixed, o…
True blue’ or part Peranakan? Peranakan Chinese identity, mixedness and authenticity in Singapore
While no longer associated with colonial economic and political privilege, Peranakan Chinese identity is now often viewed as an ‘authentic’ heritage in contemporary Singapore that is made visible through hybrid cultural and material markers. But for the Peranakan community, what does it mean to be authentically Peranakan in post-colonial Singapore? This paper explores concepts of hybridity and authenticity for Peranakan individuals, highlighting …
Applied and Clinical Sociology in Aotearoa New Zealand
Orang Cina Bukan Cina
This paper explores how being Peranakan is related to (not) being Chinese in Singapore, intertwining descent, racial categorization, cultural practice and choice. Tracing the complex history of Peranakan identity, it highlights how the social construction of race has created a hybrid yet ethnically Chinese identity, with a rich cultural heritage largely relegated to the past. Drawing on theories of racial formation and the racial state, this stud…
Not Indian, Not African
This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with immigrants of South Asian origin, from Fiji, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and East Africa. New Zealand’s system of ethnic classification relies on self-ide…
Introduction
We are very pleased to publish this commemorative Special Issue, dedicated to the life and work of Peter J [...]
Soul food or Indian food, depending on what spices you chose”
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Ethnic group (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Race (biology (7 works) · Geography (6 works)