FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KAMALINI RAMDAS
DEPUTY HEAD
DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS2 #03-06
Email:
geokr@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65-6516 6809
Fax:
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geokr/
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Brief Introduction

I am a feminist geographer who teaches courses in Social and Cultural Geography. My research interests include: queer and feminist theory, feminist interventions into urban life and urban planning, feminist pedagogy for geography education and LGBTQ+ advocacy research.


Teaching Areas

Changing Landscapes of Singapore (GES1003), Worlds of Football (GEH1076/GEC1029), Living Space: Introducing Social and Cultural Geographies (GE2231), Gender and the City (GE4228), Geography and Social Theory (GE5216), Understanding Social Complexity (HSS1000)

 


Current Research

 

I am currently working on three projects. 1) Feminist Pedagogy for geographical education  2) Community politics, rights, gender and sexuality in Singapore (with LBTQ NGO, Sayoni) and 3) Role-play and deep listening in the virtual field site (with Menusha De Silva (Geog); Robin Loon (Theatre Studies) and Shobha Avadhani (Communications and New Media).


Research Interests

My research interests include: queer and feminist geography, feminist pedagogy in geography education and LGBTQ+ advocacy research. I am interested in how the geographies of gender, sexuality and ‘race’ are integral to our understanding of the biopolitics of family and community. I am particularly interested in how spatial concepts like distance and proximity influence how we think about ethics, care, responsibility, love and friendship, and how these in turn impact social relations in various spatial context (home, community, classroom). As a feminist geographer, I am also interested in civil society and community activism that relate to gender and sexuality politics, and the spaces of possibility they represent.


Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • NA

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Yeoh, B S A and Ramdas, K. (2000), "Remembering darkness: Spectacle, surveillance and the spaces of everyday life in Syonan-to", in P.H. Lim and D. Wong (eds.), War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore, Singapore: Institute of South East Asian Studies, pp 160-185.
  • Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (2013). “Introduction: Rediscovering Singapore’s changing landscapes”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, Singapore, pp 1-22.
  • Ramdas, K. (2013). “Contesting landscapes of familyhood: Singlehood, the AWARE Saga and Pink Dot celebrations”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, Singapore, pp 115-133.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and Ramdas, K (2014a), “The role of gender and the place of women in the cities of the south” in A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South, Parnell and Oldfield (eds.), London and New York: Routledge.

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

  • Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (2013). Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, Singapore
  • Jones, G.W. and Ramdas, K. (2004), Untying the Knot: Marriage and Reality in Asian Marriage, Singapore: Asian Research Institute.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • Huang, S. and Ramdas, K (2019). “Generative Spaces of Gender and Feminist Geography in Singapore: Entanglements of the Personal and Political” Gender, Place and Culture. Vol 26, Issue 7-9: 1233-1242.
  • Ramdas, K (2020) “Negotiating LGBTQ rights in Singapore: The margin as a place of Refusal”, Urban Studies 58(7):1448-1462.
  • Ramdas, K. (2012), "Women in waiting?: Singlehood, marriage and family in Singapore", Environment in Planning A, 44(4): 832-848
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and Ramdas, K. (2014b), “Gender, migration, mobility and transnationalism”, Gender, Place and Culture. 21(10): 1197-1213
  • Ramdas, K. (2015)  "Is blood thicker than water? Single Indian Singaporean women and the geographies of ‘being’ family" Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 22(2): 257-270.
  • Zhang Juan, Yeoh, B.S.A. and Ramdas, K. (2017). “Self-fashioning exceptionality: Flexible workers in Singapore’s casino resorts”, Asian Anthropology, 16(1): 4-19,

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL

  • Ramdas, K. (2015), “Beyond ‘backwater’ island to global city vision? Rethinking feminist geographies for Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew”, Geoforum 65: 108-111
  • Ramdas, K. (2016) “Feminist Ethics of Care, Becoming Area”, Environment and Planning D, 34(5): 843-849.
  • Ramdas, K., Ho, E.L.E. and Woon, C.Y. (2018), “Changing Landscapes as Text: Geography and National Education in Singapore”, Area 50 (1), 50-54.

Other Information

Editorial board, Gender, Place and Culture

International Geographical Union (IGU),  Gender Commission Member


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