Maureen Sioh
Biographic Data
| ID | 83963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Sioh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sioh |
| SIGNATURE | SIOH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism. Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs and benefits of key economic policies in the postcolonial era using a psychoanalytical framework. While there are psychoanalytic studies of the economy a…
Book forum
This is a forum containing six short interventions on the 2023 co-authored book, Global Libidinal Economy. In the first intervention, the co-authors lay out their book’s key arguments. What follows are four critical commentaries on the book, focusing on the following question: ‘To what extent do you think unconscious excess and irrationality are integral to global political economy?’ Contributors comment from a variety of perspectives–Critical IR…
Of Extensions and Subtractions
The wound of whiteness
Manicheism delirium
This paper explores the motivations behind the outward foreign direct investment (ofdi) decisions in the past decade of an East Asian government-linked corporation (glc), the largest company of its kind in the world in terms of sectoral specialisation. This glc has travelled far from its origins as an agent of European imperialism to its current controversial role spearheading postcolonial extra-territorialisation strategies. I argue that financi…
The Hollow Within
In 1997–98 East and Southeast Asia experienced a region-wide financial crisis that saw national currencies lose 75 per cent of their value and stock markets wiped out. The financial crisis became an antagonistic and racialised referendum on Asian values between certain Asian governments and their Western critics. What was the larger political significance of this focus on Asian values? Focusing on the Malaysian government's controversial decision…
Anxious Enactments
This paper examines the specific configurations that territorialization took in the colonial and post-colonial Malaysian state within the context of the crisis of authority that accompanies violent conflicts. I trace the post-colonial Malaysian state's attempt to legitimate itself when its elites supported the British in the counterinsurgency campaign, known as the Emergency, against the forest-based Malayan Communist Party who fought for indepen…
Against the Limits of our History
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul University, 990 West Fullerton Parkway, Suite 4300, Chicago , Illinois , 60614-2458 , USA E-mail: [email protected]
An ecology of postcoloniality
Authorizing the Malaysian Rainforest
The heart of a Malayan city ..., is always a small clearing wrested from the jungle and, too easily, turns jungle again. 1 It is the jungle; the jungle which none can escape, the jungle which reaches to the back of every compound, to the back of every mind; the jungle which blots out the sun over four-fifths of Malaya's 50,850 square miles. Harsh and elemental, implacable to all who dare trifle with its suffocating heat or hissing rains, the jung…
Anxious Enactments
This paper examines the specific configurations that territorialization took in the colonial and post-colonial Malaysian state within the context of the crisis of authority that accompanies violent conflicts. I trace the post-colonial Malaysian state's attempt to legitimate itself when its elites supported the British in the counterinsurgency campaign, known as the Emergency, against the forest-based Malayan Communist Party who fought for indepen…
An ecology of postcoloniality
The Hollow Within
In 1997–98 East and Southeast Asia experienced a region-wide financial crisis that saw national currencies lose 75 per cent of their value and stock markets wiped out. The financial crisis became an antagonistic and racialised referendum on Asian values between certain Asian governments and their Western critics. What was the larger political significance of this focus on Asian values? Focusing on the Malaysian government's controversial decision…
Authorizing the Malaysian Rainforest
The heart of a Malayan city ..., is always a small clearing wrested from the jungle and, too easily, turns jungle again. 1 It is the jungle; the jungle which none can escape, the jungle which reaches to the back of every compound, to the back of every mind; the jungle which blots out the sun over four-fifths of Malaya's 50,850 square miles. Harsh and elemental, implacable to all who dare trifle with its suffocating heat or hissing rains, the jung…
The wound of whiteness
Manicheism delirium
This paper explores the motivations behind the outward foreign direct investment (ofdi) decisions in the past decade of an East Asian government-linked corporation (glc), the largest company of its kind in the world in terms of sectoral specialisation. This glc has travelled far from its origins as an agent of European imperialism to its current controversial role spearheading postcolonial extra-territorialisation strategies. I argue that financi…
Against the Limits of our History
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul University, 990 West Fullerton Parkway, Suite 4300, Chicago , Illinois , 60614-2458 , USA E-mail: [email protected]
Authorizing the Malaysian Rainforest
The heart of a Malayan city ..., is always a small clearing wrested from the jungle and, too easily, turns jungle again. 1 It is the jungle; the jungle which none can escape, the jungle which reaches to the back of every compound, to the back of every mind; the jungle which blots out the sun over four-fifths of Malaya's 50,850 square miles. Harsh and elemental, implacable to all who dare trifle with its suffocating heat or hissing rains, the jung…
An ecology of postcoloniality
Against the Limits of our History
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul University, 990 West Fullerton Parkway, Suite 4300, Chicago , Illinois , 60614-2458 , USA E-mail: [email protected]
The Hollow Within
In 1997–98 East and Southeast Asia experienced a region-wide financial crisis that saw national currencies lose 75 per cent of their value and stock markets wiped out. The financial crisis became an antagonistic and racialised referendum on Asian values between certain Asian governments and their Western critics. What was the larger political significance of this focus on Asian values? Focusing on the Malaysian government's controversial decision…
Anxious Enactments
This paper examines the specific configurations that territorialization took in the colonial and post-colonial Malaysian state within the context of the crisis of authority that accompanies violent conflicts. I trace the post-colonial Malaysian state's attempt to legitimate itself when its elites supported the British in the counterinsurgency campaign, known as the Emergency, against the forest-based Malayan Communist Party who fought for indepen…
Manicheism delirium
This paper explores the motivations behind the outward foreign direct investment (ofdi) decisions in the past decade of an East Asian government-linked corporation (glc), the largest company of its kind in the world in terms of sectoral specialisation. This glc has travelled far from its origins as an agent of European imperialism to its current controversial role spearheading postcolonial extra-territorialisation strategies. I argue that financi…
The wound of whiteness
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism. Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs and benefits of key economic policies in the postcolonial era using a psychoanalytical framework. While there are psychoanalytic studies of the economy a…
Book forum
This is a forum containing six short interventions on the 2023 co-authored book, Global Libidinal Economy. In the first intervention, the co-authors lay out their book’s key arguments. What follows are four critical commentaries on the book, focusing on the following question: ‘To what extent do you think unconscious excess and irrationality are integral to global political economy?’ Contributors comment from a variety of perspectives–Critical IR…
Of Extensions and Subtractions
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)