Qian Hui Tan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2483201 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Qian Hui Tan |
| PRENOMES | Qian Hui |
| SOBRENOME | Tan |
| ASSINATURA | TAN Q H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6126-1253 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Circulating referencescapes
Whereas smart and sustainable urbanism has been well examined in the literature on inter-urban referencing, circular urban policies aimed at encouraging R-behaviors (e.g. reduce, recycle) have received less attention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with ordinary residents in Singapore, this paper explores their predominantly inter-Asian references to cities they perceive as having more effective household recycling and plastic reduction polici…
Plastic materialities in everyday geographies
While plastics are a ubiquitous part of everyday geographies, there is growing concern about the toxicity of food-contact plastics. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 54 members from 33 Singaporean households, we examine the geographies of plastic avoidance through the conceptual lenses of precautionary consumption and communicabilities. In this case, communicabilities refer to the conditions through which health and environmental risks associat…
Everyday circular literacy in Singaporean households
Despite the state's emphasis on formal environmental education, informal settings for fostering circular literacy cannot be understated. Whereas environmental literacy has been well researched in the literature, circular literacy, which involves teaching/learning about R-behaviours that close circularity loops have been overlooked so far. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with members of Singaporean households, this paper situates circula…
Chemsex as lines of flight? Critical Deleuzean perspectives on chemical intimacies
Freecycling Markets as Sustainable Materialist Movements
This paper seeks to redress the over-emphasis on state-driven circular policies in public and academic discourses by attending to two physical community-based freecycling markets at the emerging frontiers of circular waste/resource management in Singapore. Freecycling markets that close short reuse loops are a counterpoint to policies that close long recycling loops. Drawing primarily on empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork, we argue that f…
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies
A circular economy has emerged as a promising solution for addressing plastic pollution. It directly impacts waste management practices in the household, which has long been considered a feminized domain. What are the hidden gendered costs of household plastic waste management? This paper systematically reviews extant knowledge on household plastic management in sociology and cognate disciplines. Noting the inadequate attention to gender in the c…
Living fast and dangerously? Spatio‐temporalities of happy and healthful smoking futures
This paper gathers together young smokers’ senses of present‐futures in the context of Singapore, where smoking is generally frowned upon. Accordingly, I examine how young smokers perceive and perform a multiplicity of healthful subjectivities, which is set within the context of an aggressive state‐driven pre‐emptive politics striving to nip the ‘problem’ of smoking in the bud. In providing a range of justifications for their smoking practices, y…
Feeling/filling closet smoking spaces
Aligned with geography's efforts to recover subaltern spaces, this paper investigates the phenomenon of smoking in Singapore through the concept of the queer closet. In so doing, I argue that the closet offers a refreshing analytical framework for thinking about the spatial politics of smoking beyond the dichotomies of public and public spheres, visibility and invisibility, concealment and disclosure, among others. By employing a qualitative meth…
Scent-orship and Scent-iments on the Scent-ual
Building on nascent conceptualizations of a sensory citizenship, I hope to extend the existing scholarship by bringing tobacco research into a productive conversation with emerging debates in sensory studies. Given that the senses mediate mundane social exchanges – I explore how the pungent stench of smoke that lingers on smoking bodies disrupts normative social scripts of being a neutral smelling, civic-minded individual – thus potentially rende…
Orientalist obsessions
Depictions of servile and hypersexual transwomen have come to reinforce Thailand's reputation as an exotic and erotic playground. Despite their almost ubiquitious presence in tourist spaces, the theorization of transgender subjectivities from a localized Asian perspective tends to be glossed over in the literature on leisure and recreation, perhaps due to their complex position within a Western-centric, binary model of gender and sexuality. This …
Postfeminist possibilities
One of the ways in which the heterosexualization of women's bodies is made apparent is through the blatant promotion of Ladies' Night at night clubs. These are typically weekly events, of which women are granted complimentary entry by club operators. Ladies' Night is thus popularly construed as a time and space in which men can gain access to many 'heterosexy' female bodies. The deliberate deployment of specific kinds of (post)feminine bodies and…
Smoking spaces as enabling spaces of wellbeing
Smell in the City
This paper explores smoking in the city as a sensorially transgressive practice that leads to the generation of sensuous ‘effluent’. An assessment of the relevant literature on tobacco control and urban geography reveals that it is very much sensorially sterile. Accordingly, it is hoped to redress this gap by being attentive to how a smoking related olfactory politics manifests itself in Singapore. By teasing out the embodied sensations that sens…
Flirtatious geographies
This article addresses the (hetero)sexualized, sensuous and affective nature of straight club spaces in Singapore. By attending to the theoretical intersections between affect studies and feminist perspectives, I argue that straight clubs are sites for the performances of affective heterosexualities that may and may not end up re-inscribing asymmetrical gendered power relations. In so doing, I hope to contribute to the growing literature on affec…
Towards an Affective Smoking Geography
Smoking is an inherently affective and sensuous spatial practice. However, an assessment of the existing literature reveals that an affectual-sensual account of smoking bodies is sorely lacking. For this reason, this paper makes a case for the analytical purchase of an affectively attuned approach towards smoking bodies and spaces on three fronts: (i) Affections, actions and atmospheres; (ii) sensual affects; (iii) stigmatizing affects. In so doi…
Gender and Tobacco in (Globalizing) Asia – Exorcizing the Ghosts of Dualistic Thought
This paper investigates the intersections between tobacco, gender and globalizing Asia. I argue that binary tropes like modernity/westernization‐tradition and masculinity–femininity are incessantly invoked in a burgeoning tobacco‐control literature focused on Asia. This tends to reify discursive and material gendered smoking stereotypes, as well as their underlying asymmetrical power relations. Responding to this I chart out three ways in which d…
Flirtatious geographies
This article addresses the (hetero)sexualized, sensuous and affective nature of straight club spaces in Singapore. By attending to the theoretical intersections between affect studies and feminist perspectives, I argue that straight clubs are sites for the performances of affective heterosexualities that may and may not end up re-inscribing asymmetrical gendered power relations. In so doing, I hope to contribute to the growing literature on affec…
Smell in the City
This paper explores smoking in the city as a sensorially transgressive practice that leads to the generation of sensuous ‘effluent’. An assessment of the relevant literature on tobacco control and urban geography reveals that it is very much sensorially sterile. Accordingly, it is hoped to redress this gap by being attentive to how a smoking related olfactory politics manifests itself in Singapore. By teasing out the embodied sensations that sens…
Postfeminist possibilities
One of the ways in which the heterosexualization of women's bodies is made apparent is through the blatant promotion of Ladies' Night at night clubs. These are typically weekly events, of which women are granted complimentary entry by club operators. Ladies' Night is thus popularly construed as a time and space in which men can gain access to many 'heterosexy' female bodies. The deliberate deployment of specific kinds of (post)feminine bodies and…
Towards an Affective Smoking Geography
Smoking is an inherently affective and sensuous spatial practice. However, an assessment of the existing literature reveals that an affectual-sensual account of smoking bodies is sorely lacking. For this reason, this paper makes a case for the analytical purchase of an affectively attuned approach towards smoking bodies and spaces on three fronts: (i) Affections, actions and atmospheres; (ii) sensual affects; (iii) stigmatizing affects. In so doi…
Smoking spaces as enabling spaces of wellbeing
Orientalist obsessions
Depictions of servile and hypersexual transwomen have come to reinforce Thailand's reputation as an exotic and erotic playground. Despite their almost ubiquitious presence in tourist spaces, the theorization of transgender subjectivities from a localized Asian perspective tends to be glossed over in the literature on leisure and recreation, perhaps due to their complex position within a Western-centric, binary model of gender and sexuality. This …
Feeling/filling closet smoking spaces
Aligned with geography's efforts to recover subaltern spaces, this paper investigates the phenomenon of smoking in Singapore through the concept of the queer closet. In so doing, I argue that the closet offers a refreshing analytical framework for thinking about the spatial politics of smoking beyond the dichotomies of public and public spheres, visibility and invisibility, concealment and disclosure, among others. By employing a qualitative meth…
Scent-orship and Scent-iments on the Scent-ual
Building on nascent conceptualizations of a sensory citizenship, I hope to extend the existing scholarship by bringing tobacco research into a productive conversation with emerging debates in sensory studies. Given that the senses mediate mundane social exchanges – I explore how the pungent stench of smoke that lingers on smoking bodies disrupts normative social scripts of being a neutral smelling, civic-minded individual – thus potentially rende…
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies
A circular economy has emerged as a promising solution for addressing plastic pollution. It directly impacts waste management practices in the household, which has long been considered a feminized domain. What are the hidden gendered costs of household plastic waste management? This paper systematically reviews extant knowledge on household plastic management in sociology and cognate disciplines. Noting the inadequate attention to gender in the c…
Gender and Tobacco in (Globalizing) Asia – Exorcizing the Ghosts of Dualistic Thought
This paper investigates the intersections between tobacco, gender and globalizing Asia. I argue that binary tropes like modernity/westernization‐tradition and masculinity–femininity are incessantly invoked in a burgeoning tobacco‐control literature focused on Asia. This tends to reify discursive and material gendered smoking stereotypes, as well as their underlying asymmetrical power relations. Responding to this I chart out three ways in which d…
Smell in the City
This paper explores smoking in the city as a sensorially transgressive practice that leads to the generation of sensuous ‘effluent’. An assessment of the relevant literature on tobacco control and urban geography reveals that it is very much sensorially sterile. Accordingly, it is hoped to redress this gap by being attentive to how a smoking related olfactory politics manifests itself in Singapore. By teasing out the embodied sensations that sens…
Flirtatious geographies
This article addresses the (hetero)sexualized, sensuous and affective nature of straight club spaces in Singapore. By attending to the theoretical intersections between affect studies and feminist perspectives, I argue that straight clubs are sites for the performances of affective heterosexualities that may and may not end up re-inscribing asymmetrical gendered power relations. In so doing, I hope to contribute to the growing literature on affec…
Towards an Affective Smoking Geography
Smoking is an inherently affective and sensuous spatial practice. However, an assessment of the existing literature reveals that an affectual-sensual account of smoking bodies is sorely lacking. For this reason, this paper makes a case for the analytical purchase of an affectively attuned approach towards smoking bodies and spaces on three fronts: (i) Affections, actions and atmospheres; (ii) sensual affects; (iii) stigmatizing affects. In so doi…
Smoking spaces as enabling spaces of wellbeing
Orientalist obsessions
Depictions of servile and hypersexual transwomen have come to reinforce Thailand's reputation as an exotic and erotic playground. Despite their almost ubiquitious presence in tourist spaces, the theorization of transgender subjectivities from a localized Asian perspective tends to be glossed over in the literature on leisure and recreation, perhaps due to their complex position within a Western-centric, binary model of gender and sexuality. This …
Postfeminist possibilities
One of the ways in which the heterosexualization of women's bodies is made apparent is through the blatant promotion of Ladies' Night at night clubs. These are typically weekly events, of which women are granted complimentary entry by club operators. Ladies' Night is thus popularly construed as a time and space in which men can gain access to many 'heterosexy' female bodies. The deliberate deployment of specific kinds of (post)feminine bodies and…
Living fast and dangerously? Spatio‐temporalities of happy and healthful smoking futures
This paper gathers together young smokers’ senses of present‐futures in the context of Singapore, where smoking is generally frowned upon. Accordingly, I examine how young smokers perceive and perform a multiplicity of healthful subjectivities, which is set within the context of an aggressive state‐driven pre‐emptive politics striving to nip the ‘problem’ of smoking in the bud. In providing a range of justifications for their smoking practices, y…
Feeling/filling closet smoking spaces
Aligned with geography's efforts to recover subaltern spaces, this paper investigates the phenomenon of smoking in Singapore through the concept of the queer closet. In so doing, I argue that the closet offers a refreshing analytical framework for thinking about the spatial politics of smoking beyond the dichotomies of public and public spheres, visibility and invisibility, concealment and disclosure, among others. By employing a qualitative meth…
Scent-orship and Scent-iments on the Scent-ual
Building on nascent conceptualizations of a sensory citizenship, I hope to extend the existing scholarship by bringing tobacco research into a productive conversation with emerging debates in sensory studies. Given that the senses mediate mundane social exchanges – I explore how the pungent stench of smoke that lingers on smoking bodies disrupts normative social scripts of being a neutral smelling, civic-minded individual – thus potentially rende…
Chemsex as lines of flight? Critical Deleuzean perspectives on chemical intimacies
Freecycling Markets as Sustainable Materialist Movements
This paper seeks to redress the over-emphasis on state-driven circular policies in public and academic discourses by attending to two physical community-based freecycling markets at the emerging frontiers of circular waste/resource management in Singapore. Freecycling markets that close short reuse loops are a counterpoint to policies that close long recycling loops. Drawing primarily on empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork, we argue that f…
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies
A circular economy has emerged as a promising solution for addressing plastic pollution. It directly impacts waste management practices in the household, which has long been considered a feminized domain. What are the hidden gendered costs of household plastic waste management? This paper systematically reviews extant knowledge on household plastic management in sociology and cognate disciplines. Noting the inadequate attention to gender in the c…
Everyday circular literacy in Singaporean households
Despite the state's emphasis on formal environmental education, informal settings for fostering circular literacy cannot be understated. Whereas environmental literacy has been well researched in the literature, circular literacy, which involves teaching/learning about R-behaviours that close circularity loops have been overlooked so far. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with members of Singaporean households, this paper situates circula…
Circulating referencescapes
Whereas smart and sustainable urbanism has been well examined in the literature on inter-urban referencing, circular urban policies aimed at encouraging R-behaviors (e.g. reduce, recycle) have received less attention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with ordinary residents in Singapore, this paper explores their predominantly inter-Asian references to cities they perceive as having more effective household recycling and plastic reduction polici…
Plastic materialities in everyday geographies
While plastics are a ubiquitous part of everyday geographies, there is growing concern about the toxicity of food-contact plastics. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 54 members from 33 Singaporean households, we examine the geographies of plastic avoidance through the conceptual lenses of precautionary consumption and communicabilities. In this case, communicabilities refer to the conditions through which health and environmental risks associat…
Sociology (12 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras)