MR KELVIN E.Y. LOW
INSTRUCTOR
DEPARTMENT of SOCIOLOGY
National University of Singapore

  
    
Appointment: INSTRUCTOR
Office: AS1 #03-19
Email: socleyk@nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516 6111
Fax: (65) 6777 9579
Homepage: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/socleyk/
  
 
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Brief Introduction Top

Kelvin studied at the National University of Singapore and graduated with a B.Soc.Sci.(Hons Class I) and an M.Soc.Sci. He is presently working towards a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.


Teaching Areas Top

National University of Singapore

(2009 onwards)

  • SC1101E Making Sense of Society
  • SC4208B Body and Society

    (2002-2005)

  • SC1101E Making Sense of Society
  • SSA1201 Singapore Society
  • SC2210 Sociology of Popular Culture
  • SC3219 Sexuality in Comparative Perspective

  • University of Bielefeld

    (2007-2009)

  • Cultural Studies and the Politics of Everyday Life in 'Asia' (co-chair)
  • Cultural Ethnographies and the Politics of Writing (co-chair)


  • Current Research Top

    • Social Memory and Historiography of the Samsui Women in Singapore and China
    • Lived Experiences of Ma Jies (Cantonese female domestic servants) in early and contemporary Singapore 
    • Sensory experiences in Asian societies 
    • Memory and Heritage Making in Asia


    Research Interests Top

    • Social Memory and Historiography
    • Sociology of Everyday Life
    • Migration and Transnationalism
    • Sociology of the Senses

     

     


    Publications Top

    BOOKS

    CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

    • (with D. Kalekin-Fishman) 'Introduction.' for Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. (in press)
       
    • (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. (in press)
       
    • '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. (in press)
       
    • 'Researcher Positionalities, Moral Gatekeeping, and Knowledge Production: Some Thoughts on Doing Research on the Samsui Women in Singapore.' for Loh Kah Seng and Liew Kai Khiun (eds) Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. Singapore Heritage Society & SIRD (forthcoming).
       

    ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNAL

    • 'Presenting the Self, the Social Body, and the Olfactory: Managing Smells in Everyday Life Experiences.' Sociological Perspectives 49:4 (2006): 607-631.
       
    • 'Money and Morality: Some Perspectives from Singapore.' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 7 (2005): 37-62.
       
    • 'Ruminations on Smell as a Sociocultural Phenomenon.' Current Sociology 53:3 (2005) 397-417.
       
    • ‘Memories in Context via Cyber Reminiscing: The Case of Marilyn Monroe’. The Qualitative Report. 8:4 (2003) 607-23.
       

    WORKING PAPERS/ SHORTER ARTICLES

    • '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.
       

    CONFERENCE PAPERS

    • '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.
       
    • 'Social History and Women in Singapore: Representations of Female Migrants through Popular Memory Media.' American Sociological Association 102nd Annual Meeting, 11-14 August 2007, New York.
       
    • 'Historiography and the Samsui women in Singapore: Some Preliminary Notes on Popular History and Dis-memberment.' International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2-5 August 2007, Kuala Lumpur.
       
    • 'From Migrants to Pioneers: Heritage Appropriation and the Samsui Women in Singapore', workshop on Mobile City Singapore, organised by the Asia Research Institute and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 1-3 March 2007.
       
    • 'Women in Absentia? Rethinking History and Female Migrants' Experiences.' Hong Kong Sociological Association 8th Annual Conference, Hong Kong Shue Yan College, 2 December 2006.
       
    • 'Olfactive Frames of Remembering: Notes on the Smells of Memories.' XVI World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
       
    • ‘Beyond the Red Head Scarves: Reflections on the Samsui women in Singapore.’ Conference on Studying Globalisation: Issues and Problems, Faculty of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, 29-30 June 2006.
       
    • (with N. Abdullah) 'Ruptures and Cracks: Lessons about Race, Class and Gender in Singapore Sociology.' XVI World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
       
    • (with N. Abdullah) 'Absent Stories: Rethinking 'Social Memory' and '(His)tory' via Lived Experiences.' Conference Paper, Re-thinking and Re-searching the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Writings and Inquiries in a Globalising Era, National University of Singapore, 28-29 July 2005.
       
    • ‘Constructing ‘Race’ through Olfactory Appraisals: A Sociological Inquiry of Smells in Singapore.’ Conference Paper, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 21 July 2005.
       
    • 'Ruminations on Smell as a Sociocultural Phenomenon.' International Sociological Association Symposium Paper. Global Challenges and Local Responses: Trends and Developments in Society and Sociology in Asia and Beyond. Organised by the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore; the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore; the International Sociological Association, and the Department of Sociology, International Islamic University, 14-16 March 2004.
       
    • 'Dollars and Sense: Understanding Money and Familial Relationships’. Conference paper. Creating spaces: Interdisciplinary writings in the social sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, 17-18 July 2003.
       

    BOOK REVIEWS

    • 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 (in progress).
       
    • 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 (in press).
       
    • 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.
       

    PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

    • '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.
       

    DISSERTATIONS

    • M.Soc.Sci
      'Scents and Scent-sibilities: A Sociocultural Inquiry of Smells in Everyday Life Experiences'

       

    Other Information Top

    Editorial Assistant, Social Sciences in Asia Monograph Series, Brill, Leiden (06/2009-present).


    Journal Reviewer: Social Problems; Rural Sociology; Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies; Asian Journal of Social Science.

    Membership: Association for Asian Studies; Hong Kong Sociological Association; Global Studies Association.

    Editorial Assistant, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2006/07.

    Conference Organiser, Re-thinking and Re-searching the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Writings and Inquiries in a Globalising Era. National University of Singapore, 2005.


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