Assistant Professor Chun Sheng Goh recently published two journal articles on Borneo's borderlands.(1) "Confronting the Spectres of Borneo’s Borderlands: A Hauntological Analysis of Cinematic Representations and Ethnography" in Journal of Borderlands Studies.AbstractBorderlands are haunted – not only by literal tales of spectres, but by the haunted histories, phantom sovereignty, invisible populations, and ghostly violence that shape everyday life at the frontier. This paper advances a border hauntology for Borneo’s borderlands by reading two films distributed via Netflix, Borderless Fog (2024) and Conquer: Lahad Datu (2024) alongside six ethnographic studies (Eilenberg 2012; Mee 2014; Carson 2016; Solmiah 2022; Zulkipli & Askandar 2021; Cheong et al., 2025). Methodologically,…

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…