Publications

BOOKS

• Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023).

   

• Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (2014; paperback 2015); Paperback by NUS Press (2015).

  
  Reviewed in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia; Asian Journal of Social Science; Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews; Southeast Asian Studies; International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies <华人研究国际学报>; University of Toronto Quarterly; Research on Women in Modern Chinese History <近代中國婦女史硏究>; International Migration Review

• Scents and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life Experiences. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009).

  
  Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology; Asian Journal of Social Science; International Sociology.

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• (with R. Siriwardane-Zoysa, N. Abdullah, and A.K. Hornidge)(eds.) Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manouevrings. Leiden: Brill (2022). 

   

• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman)(eds) Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings. London: Routledge (2017).
   

  Reviewed in Environment and Planning B; Sociological Forum

• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman)(eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited (2010); Paperback by Routledge (2016).

  
  Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology; Social and Cultural Geography; International Sociology Review of Books.

INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• 'Of Sensory Infractions and Anthropomorphism Across Asian Urban Histories.' History and Anthropology (online first Feb 2024). 
   
• (with N. Abdullah) 'The Crisis of Sensory Citizenship in Dense Urban Living.' Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie 147 (2022): 119-128. 

   

• (with N. Abdullah) 'Senses as Mobile Actants: Sketching Conceptual and Comparative Possibilities.' American Behavioral Scientist 64(10):1430-1443 (online first, 27 August 2020).
   
• (with N. Abdullah and Elaine Ho) ‘Shaping Mobile Worlds in Asia: Human and Non-Human Socialities’ American Behavioral Scientist 64(10):1395-1399 (online first, 14 August 2020). 
   
• 'Gastropolitical Encounters and the Political Life of Sensation.' The Sociological Review (online first, 15 May 2020; print version 2021, 69(1): 190-205). 
   
• 'Theorising Sensory Cultures in Asia: Sociohistorical Perspectives.' Asian Studies Review 43(4): 618-636 (online first September 2019; print version December 2019).
   
• (with Elaine Ho) 'Eating in the City.' Food, Culture and Society 21:1 (2018): 2-8.  
   
• 'Concrete Memories and Sensory Pasts: Everyday Heritage and the Politics of Nationhood.' Pacific Affairs 90:2 (2017): 275-295. (Shortlist for the William L. Holland Prize) 
   
• 'Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives: Constructing a Gurkha Diaspora.' Ethnic and Racial Studies (online first, September 2015; print version published in vol. 39(5) 2016: 840-857).
   
• 'The Sensuous City: Sensory Methodologies in Urban Ethnographic Research.' Ethnography 16:3 (2015): 295-312.
   
• 'Chinese Migration and Entangled Histories: Broadening the Contours of Migratory Historiography.' Journal of Historical Sociology 27:1 (2014): 75-102.
   
• 'Olfactive Frames of Remembering: Theorising Self, Senses and Society.' The Sociological Review 61:4 (2013): 688-708.
   
• 'Sensing Cities: The Politics of Migrant Sensescapes.' Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. 19:2 (2013): 221-237.
   
• 'The Social Life of the Senses: Charting Directions.' Sociology Compass. 6:3 (2012): 271-282.
   
• 'Presenting the Self, the Social Body, and the Olfactory: Managing Smells in Everyday Life Experiences.' Sociological Perspectives 49:4 (2006): 607-631.
   
• 'Ruminations on Smell as a Sociocultural Phenomenon.' Current Sociology 53:3 (2005): 397-417.
   
• 'Money and Morality: Some Perspectives from Singapore.' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 7 (2005): 37-62.
   
• ‘Memories in Context via Cyber Reminiscing: The Case of Marilyn Monroe’. The Qualitative Report. 8:4 (2003): 607-23.

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

• (with N. Abdullah and Elaine Ho) 'Shaping Mobile Worlds in Asia: Human and Nonhuman Socialities.' Special issue, American Behavioral Scientist 64:10 (2020).
   
• (with Elaine Ho) 'Eating in the City.' Special Issue, Food, Culture, and Society 21:1 (2018).
   

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• 'Sensory and Embodied Narratives of Sea Lives and Displacement: The Orang Laut in Singapore.' for Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Kelvin E.Y. Low, Noorman Abdullah, and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manouevrings. Leiden: Brill, pp. 27-49 (2022).

   

• (with N. Abdullah) 'Reconfiguring Coastal Urbanities: Discourse, Practice, and Theory.' for Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Kelvin E.Y. Low, Noorman Abdullah, and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manouevrings. Leiden: Brill, pp. 225-232 (2022).

   

• (with S. Camacho and J.Chieng) 'Sounding Things Out: Sonic Parameters and Possibilities.' for Sanne Krogh Groth and James Mannell (eds) Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines. Lund: Lund University Press, pp.178-185 (2021). 

   

• (invited)(with Z. Trivic) 'Studying Multi-Sensory Neighbourhoods and Ageing-Friendly Design: Methodological Propositions.' for Xavier Bonnaud and Victor Fraigneau (eds) New Territories of the Olfactory Experience. Gollion: Infolio, pp.179-196 (2021).   
   
• (with N. Abdullah) 'Sensory Experience as Method.' for Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment. Oxford: Oxford U.P. (invited; online first, December 2019).

   

• (with N. Abdullah) 'Unpacking Emotion Regimes in Teaching and Fieldwork: Introduction.' for Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib (eds) Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. New York: Springer, pp. 281-285 (2019).  

   

• 'Belonging and Not-Belonging: Experiences of Nepali Gurkha Families on Returning from Singapore.' for David Gellner and Sondra Hausner (eds.) Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. Delhi: Oxford U.P., pp.163-187 (2018).
   
• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman) 'Sensory Urbanities: Excursions in the City.' for Kelvin E.Y. Low and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (eds) Senses in Cities: Experiences in Urban Settings. London: Routledge, pp. 1-7 (2017).

   

• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman) 'Expanding the Scope of a Sociology of the Senses.' for Kelvin E.Y. Low and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (eds) Senses in Cities: Experiences in Urban Settings. London: Routledge, pp. 217-228 (2017).

   

• 'Tasting Memories, Cooking Heritage: A Sensuous Invitation to Remember.' for Lily Kong and Vineeta Sinha (eds.) Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community, and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 61-82 (2015).
   
• 'Songs for the Nation: Migrant Pasts and Global Futures.' for Irial Glynn and Olaf Kleist (eds) History, Memory and Migration: Perceptions of the Past and the Politics of Incorporation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 214-234 (2012).
   
• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman) 'Introduction.' for Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp.1-15 (2010).
   
• (with D. Kalekin-Fishman) 'Afterword: Towards Transnational Sensescapes.' for Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp.195-203 (2010).
   
• 'Summoning the Senses in Memory and Heritage Making.' for Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp.87-113 (2010).
   
• 'Researcher Positionalities, Moral Gatekeeping, and Knowledge Production: Some Thoughts on Doing Research on the Samsui Women in Singapore.' for Loh Kah Seng et al. (eds) Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. Singapore Heritage Society & Ethos Books, pp.232-241 (2010)[Revised reprint].

ARTICLE REVIEWS

• (invited commentary) 'Between the Hydraulic and the Infrastructural.' Current Anthropology (submitted). 

WORKING PAPERS/ SHORTER ARTICLES

• (invited op.ed; with Juliet Tempest) 'The Taste of Protein: Southeast Asia’s Fake Meats Grapple With Texture and Religious Taboos.' Southeast Asia Globe, (2022). 
• (with N. Abdullah and Q. Feng) 'Sensory Disability.' for Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Eds. Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre. Leiden: Springer.
• (invited paper) 'Anthropology of the Senses' for Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford U.P. (2018).
• (Invited entry) "Smell" for Hilary Callan (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell (2018).
• 'Interpreting Media Constructions of Samsui Women in Singapore.' BiblioAsia 5:3 (2009) 18-22.
• 'Moral Gatekeeping and Social Responsibility: Reflections on Doing Samsui Women Research.' (with Mandarin translation, '道德守护与社会责任：对三水妇女研究的思考')Tangent 6:2 (2007) 93-105. Special issue on Engagements with the Makers and Keepers of Singapore History.
• (with N. Abdullah) 'An Interview with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka' International Sociological Association E-Bulletin, Issue 8, 2007.
• 'Olfactive Frames of Remembering: Notes on the Smells of Memories.' National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology Working Paper Series, No. 179, 2007.
• (with N. Abdullah) 'Academic Colonialism, Corporate Intellectuals, and 'Lost' Ideals: Reflections on the State of Sociology in the New Millenium.' International Sociological Association E-Bulletin, Issue 2, November 2005: 26-32.
• 'Olfaction and the Presentation of Self.' National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology Working Paper Series, No. 173, 2005.

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• Co-Keynote Speaker (with Suriani Suratman), 'Talking with Clay: Making, Learning, and Teaching Clay in Singapore. ' Singapore Clay Festival, 2 November 2023. 
• Invited Speaker, 'Between Smell and Sensory Anthropology.' Smell Studies Group, Brown University, 13 July 2023. 
• Keynote Speaker, 'Crafting Sensory Anthropology: The Senses and Social Life in Asia.' Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 19 April 2023. 
• Invited Speaker, 'Eating Heritage through Time: Foodways, Sensory Encounters and Everyday Life Experiences.' Asian Civilisations Museum, 27 March 2023. 
• Keynote Speaker, 'Sensoria In/Of Asia: Directions, Themes, and Methodologies.' Translating Sensory Experience workshop, RMIT, 29 September 2022. 
• Invited Lecture for workshop on Academic Publications, 9th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 15-16 September 2022. 
• Invited Panelist, 'Olfactive Othering and Sensory Jurisprudence in Urban Life.' What is Smell Studies? workshop, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 31 May 2022. 
• Invited Panelist for Research Forum on 'Research Design and How to Craft a Strong Research Proposal.' Singapore University of Social Sciences, 23 May 2022.  
• Invited Panelist for 'Histories: What to Eat Next – Exploring Singapore’s Food Heritage.' National Library Board, Singapore, 18 May 2022. 
• Invited Lecture, 'Sensory Worlds and Ethnographic Inquiry.' Winter School on "Doing Ethnographic Research", Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 4-8 April 2022. 
• Keynote Speaker, 'Society through the Senses.' Knowledge and Inquiry Symposium, Ministry of Education (Singapore), 4 February 2022. 
• Invited Speaker, 'Making Space for Hawker Heritage Stories.' Hawker Culture and Social Spaces in Singapore Webinar Series, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 10 June 2021. 
• Keynote Speaker, 'How to Eat Heritage: The Sensorial, The Familial, and The Political.' Food Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage Symposium, Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (Taiwan), and Taipei National University of the Arts, 8-9 November 2019.  
• Invited Speaker, (with N. Abdullah) 'The Mobile Life of the Senses in Migratory-Urban Contexts.' Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 9 July 2019.
• Invited Speaker, 'Theorising Sensory Cultures in Asia: Sociohistorical Perspectives.' Understanding Asia Seminar Series, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, 17 June 2019.
• Invited Speaker (with N. Abdullah) 'Senses on the Move: Unpacking Migrant Encounters in Urban Spaces.' Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University, 30 April 2019.
• Invited Speaker, 'The Politics of Edible Heritage: Outlining Sensory and Gastronomic Approaches.' Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, 9 January 2019.
• Keynote Speaker, 'Theorising Senses and Social Life in Asian Contexts.' 6th Annual International Conference on Contemporary Cultural Studies, 26-27 November 2018.
• Invited Speaker, 'Heritage-making through the Lens of Food and the Senses.' Symposium on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cities: Communities, Connections, and Challenges, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 29-30 October 2018.
• Invited Speaker, 'Spaces of Migration through Historical and Sensorial Dimensions.' Raffles Institution, Singapore, 16 January 2018.
• Invited Speaker, 'Remembering the Samsui Women: Asia's First Feminists?' Humanities and Social Sciences Leaders Academy lecture series, River Valley High School, Singapore, 20 April 2017.
• Invited Speaker, 'Tasting Heritage: Thinking about Food, Senses, and Memory-Making.' Co-organised by Foodscape Collective and Edible Garden City, Hort Park, Singapore, 15 October 2016.
• Invited Panelist, 'Merchandising Migrants: Remembering the Samsui Women.' Public History Workshop on Migrants and the Making of Modern Singapore, The Agora, Singapore, 13 August 2016.
• Invited Speaker, 'Ethnography and the Sensorium.' Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universität Luzern, 1 June 2016.
• Invited Speaker, 'Social Memory Making and the Samsui Women: Objects, Heritage, Merchandisation.' Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, 11 March 2016.
• Invited Speaker, 'Sensory Socialities: Theoretical and Methodological Propositions.' Center for Diversity and Gender Studies, University of Iceland, 23 September 2015.
• Invited Speaker, 'Sensory Excursions in the Production of the Everyday.' Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, University of Bremen, 28 May 2015.
• Invited Speaker, 'Between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Abject Bodies as Spectacles.' Singapore Art Museum, 21 June 2014.
• Invited Speaker, 'Constructing a Gurkha Diaspora in Asia?' University of Bielefeld, 21 May 2014.
• Invited Speaker, 'City Life and the Senses.' Singapore Biennale 2013, The Mapping Series, National Heritage Board & Singapore Art Museum, 15 Feb 2014.
• Invited Speaker, 'Global Warriors: Tracing Migratory Paths of Gurkhas in Southeast Asia and Beyond.' Seoul National University, 6 December 2013.
• Invited Speaker, 'The Politics of Migrant Presences in Historical and Contemporary Contexts.' Social Science Capstone Seminar, Singapore Management University, 23 January 2013.
• Invited Speaker, 'Spaces of migration through historical and sensorial dimensions.' University Scholars Program, Advanced Multidisciplinary Seminar Module on Transnationalism, Migrant Flows and Urban Landscape Changes, National University of Singapore, 11 June 2010.
• 'Media Constructions of the Samsui women in Singapore.' National Library Board, Singapore, 12 March 2009.
• 'Moral Gatekeeping and Social Responsibility: Reflections on Doing Samsui Women Research.' Symposium on The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History, organised by the Asia Research Institute, NUS, and the Singapore Heritage Society, 10 November 2008.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (FROM 2008 ONWARDS)

• 'Widening the Ambit of Sensory Scholarship: Theorising from Asia.' Workshop on Beyond Alternatives: Decentering Knowledge in Asia. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, 25-26 September 2023. 
• 'The Contours of Sensory Jurisprudence and Urban Sanitation.' International Sociological Association, XX World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 25 June to 1 July 2023. 
• 'Fair or Fowl: Human-Animal Relations, Sensory Boundaries and Social Control.' Workshop on Embodied, Emotional and Sensorial Knowledge: Perspectives from Asia. Co-organised by Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Shaping Asia network, ISA TG07 Senses and Society, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NUS, 16-17 February 2023. 
• (with N. Abdullah) 'Teaching with and through the Senses: Instigations with Race, Multiculturalism and Everyday Life.' Workshop on Embodied, Emotional and Sensorial Knowledge: Perspectives from Asia. Co-organised by Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Shaping Asia network, ISA TG07 Senses and Society, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NUS, 16-17 February 2023. 
• (with S. Suratman) 'Between Scientific and Sensory Knowledge: Exploring the Enactment of Clay Sensibilities among Clay Artists in Singapore.' Workshop on Embodied, Emotional and Sensorial Knowledge: Perspectives from Asia. Co-organised by Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Shaping Asia network, ISA TG07 Senses and Society, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NUS, 16-17 February 2023. 
• (invited speaker) 'Sense-able Asia: Knowledge on the Move.' Workshop on Knowledge on the Move: Connectivities, Frontiers, Translations in Asia, University of Tokyo, 9-10 January 2021. 
• (invited speaker) 'Prospects for Urban Soundscapes and Sonic Governance.' Workshop on Negotiating Noise, University of Nottingham, Malaysia, 15-16 January 2020. 
• 'Constructing Sensescapes through War: Comparative and Methodological Deliberations.' Workshop on Entangled Comparisons, Grounding Research on Asia: Expanding Research Methodologies. Co-organised by Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Institute for World Society Studies, Universitaet Bielefeld, 5-6 September 2019. 
• (with N. Abdullah) 'Senses as Mobile Actants: Sketching Conceptual and Comparative Possibilities.' Workshop on Shaping Migrant and Mobile Worlds: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations. Co-organised by NUS FASS Migration Research Cluster, NUS Department of Sociology, and Shaping Asia network, 21-22 February 2019.  
• 'Sensory and Embodied Narratives of Sea Lives and Displacement: The Orang Laut in Singapore.' Symposium on Translating Sea Level Change in Urban Life: Policies, Practices, and their Intersections in Island Southeast Asia. Co-organised by ZMT, Bremen and Center for Urban & Regional Studies, University of Indonesia, 5-6 September 2018.
• 'Senses and the Social in Asia: Some Theoretical Propositions.' Symposium on Travels in Trans-Sensoriality. Co-organised by Lasalle College of the Arts, City University of Hong Kong, and the Zurich Academy of the Arts, 31 Oct-1 Nov, 2017.
• 'Eating Politics: Gastro-Diplomacy and Sensory Encounters.' International Sociological Association, 3rd Forum of Sociology, Vienna, 10-14 July 2016.
• 'Sensory Encounters with Diversity: Migrant Lives, Citizenship, and Transnationalism.' Conference on Diversity Encounters: Intersectional and Postcolonial Perspectives. Humboldt University, Berlin, 23-26 May 2016.
• 'Tasting the Past: The Politics of Edible Heritage.' Workshop on Food and the Global Asian City. NUS FASS Cities Cluster and ISA TG07, 8-9 April 2015.
• 'Sensing Gastronomy: Multisensory Approaches and Methodologies.' City Food: Lessons from People on the Move. New York University, 29-31 Oct 2014.
• 'The Spatial Politics of Noise.' International Sociological Association 18th World Congress, Yokohama, 13-19 July 2014.
• 'Aspiring to Belong: Comparing Migrant Experiences of Gurkhas in the UK, Singapore, and Nepal.' Workshop on Geographies of Aspiration: Urban Places, Constitutive Connections and Methodological Innovations. NUS FASS, ARI, and University of Manchester, 22-23 July 2013.
• 'Towards a Sensory History of Asia: A Sociocultural Perspective.' International Sociological Association, 2nd Forum, Buenos Aires, 1-4 August 2012.
• 'Home, Belonging, and Not Belonging: Experiences of Nepalese Gurkha Families.' Nepal Diasporas Workshop, University of Oxford, 9-10 July 2012.
• 'The Sensual Life of the City: Exploring Sensory Methodologies in Urbanity.' Doing Asian Cities: A Workshop on Urban Aspirations. ARI and Max Planck Institute, 5-6 June 2012.
• 'Sensing Cities: The Politics of Migrant Sensescapes.' Transnational Cities through an Integrated Humanities and Social Science Model Conference, 16-17 April 2012, University of Toronto.
• 'Sensory Transgressions in Urbanity: Rights, Citizenship, and Sensorial Experiences.' Sensory Urbanisms Workshop. FASS Cities Cluster, NUS, 11 November 2011.
• '"Concrete" Memories and Sensory Pasts: Heritage, Migration, and the Politics of Nationhood.' Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage. Istanbul Technical University Macka & Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 25-29 May 2011.
• 'Migrant Biographies, Social Memory, and Imaginings of the Nation.' Conference on Forms and Functions of Social Memories: Perspectives from Social and Cultural Sciences. Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen, Germany, 10-12 December 2010.
• ‘On the Sensorial Self.’ XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden. RC 36, Self, Society and the 21st century, 10-17 July 2010.
• 'From Entangled Histories to Entangled Memories: Conceptualising Samsui Women Historiography and Experiences'. Conference on The State of Dialogue between History and Sociology, 9-11 February 2009, University of Bielefeld.
• 'Respondent "Vulnerability", Moral Gatekeeping and Social Responsibility: Reflections on Doing Samsui Women Research.' International Sociological Association RC 33 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, 1-5 September 2008, Naples, Italy.  
• 'Samsui Women and Popular Memory: A Problem of Historiographical Stasis?' American Sociological Association 103rd Annual Meeting, 1-4 August 2008, Boston.

BOOK REVIEWS

• (Invited) Review of Kevin Blackburn. 'The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory.' (NUS Press, 2022). Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 96:1 (2023): 169-170. 
• (Invited) Review of Gregor Benton and Liu Hong. 'Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980.' (University of California Press, 2018) International Migration Review (online first, August 2019).
• Review of Christopher Nelson. 'Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa.' (Duke U.P., 2008) Asian Journal of Social Science 40:4 (2012): 532-534.
• Review of Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli. 'The Scripting of A National History: Singapore and its Pasts.' (NUS Press; Hong Kong U.P., 2008) Asian Journal of Social Science 38:3 (2010): 508-510.
• Review of Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz (eds.) 'Speaking of Colours and Odours.' (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007) International Sociology 24:5 (2009): 746-750.
• Review of Howes, David. (ed) 'Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader.' (Oxford; New York: Berg, 2005) International Sociology 22:2 (2007): 231-234.
• Review of Pink, Sarah. 'Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects and Everyday Life.' (Oxford; New York: Berg, 2004) International Sociology 21:3 (2006): 468-470.