Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray recently published a journal article entitled "Articulations: Production and social reproduction in an industrial neighborhood of Delhi" in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.The paper examines the articulation of capitalist relations with caste, ethnic, gender, and spatial relations in context-specific ways, which not only produce a structure of domination but also “minor liberations” in an industrial neighborhood in Delhi. The articulation of capitalist relations with these relations overdetermines two specific dynamics: (1) skilling, deskilling, and reskilling, and (2) social reproduction. By drawing on Stuart Hall’s framework of articulation, I show how capital leverages social differences…

Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray recently published a journal article entitled "Fieldwork encounters: Navigation of relationships and the conundrums of ethnographic knowledge production" in Ethnography.The paper examines the methodological challenges of conducting ethnographic research in complex research settings underpinned by social inequalities and power relations. It analyses how the quests for validity and mutuality were undermined by recurrent doubts that saturated relationships with my interlocutors—displaced communities and individuals occupying positions of power in Delhi. By examining authorial voices and silences, as well as the prevailing fault lines, it highlights the issues of trust, surveillance, and the need to deploy guerrilla research techniques…

Senior Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee recently published a co-edited volume entitled Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge. The book is co-edited with Professor Francis Collins (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore, Singapore). The book asks: How can migration studies respond to the decolonial challenge? The book features contributions from migration studies scholars based in Australia, Brunei, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. In this collection of chapters, the book confronts issues of ongoing colonialism and offers a re-evaluation of…

Senior Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee recently published a journal article entitled "Racial Sensemaking and International Student Mobility: Mainland Chinese Students in Singapore and Malaysia Navigating Multiculturalism and Multiracialism" in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Q1, Scopus). The article is co-authored with Madeleine Shutler (National University of Singapore) and Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore).The article uses the concept of racial sensemaking (i.e. a subjective, meaning-making process through which people interpret and explain racial experiences) to comparatively analyse the reflexive experiences of multiculturalism and multiracialism amongst mainland Chinese international students in Singapore and Malaysia who were interviewed in 2023-2024.Through foregrounding micro-level experiences of multiculturalism and…