Teaching Areas

Teaching areas and pedagogical interests:

Race and ethnic relations, multiculturalism, sociology and anthropology of the state, interpretive sociology, cultural studies, urban studies

Current Research

Please visit www.danielpsgoh.com for details of publications and current research projects. Please email me if you would like to have a digital copy of any of my articles. You may also refer to my google scholar profile.

Research Projects

• With Tim Bunnell, Capitals of the Future: Place, Power and Possibility in Southeast Asia, submitted MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2
• With Vineeta Sinha and Narayanan Ganapathy, Singapore Families and Residents Living In/Through the COVID-19 Pandemic, Reimagine Research Fund Type 1
• With Terence Chong, Christianity in Southeast Asia: Comparative Growth, Politics and Networks in Urban Centres, Social Science Research Thematic Grant, completed March 2021
• With Tim Bunnell, Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities, MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2, completed December 2016
• With Jaclyn Neo and Arif Jamal, Regulating Religion, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, NUS Faculty of Law, completed March 2017

Recent Publications (last five years)

• With Terence Chong, “Ministering to the Middle: Christian Megachurches and Minoritarian Politics in Southeast Asia,” Politics and Religion, 2022, forthcoming, published online 20 April 2022.
• With Andrew Lee, “Migrant Worker Recreational Centres, Accidental Diversities and New Relationalities in Singapore,” Urban Studies, 2022, forthcoming, published online 1 April 2022.
• With Terence Chong, “Beyond Mall Christianity: Megachurches Navigating Southeast Asian Urbanism,” Pacific Affairs, 2022, 95 (1): 5-26.
• With Terence Chong, “‘Chinese Privilege’ as Shortcut in Singapore: A Rejoinder,” Asian Ethnicity, 2022, 23 (3): 630-635.
• “Affective Identities and the Recontextualisation of Elite Schools for Globalisation in Singapore,” Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020, 18 (2): 208-220.
• With Jaclyn Neo and Arif Jamal (eds), Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• “Super-diversity and the Bio-politics of Migrant Worker Exclusion in Singapore,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2019, 26 (3): 356-73.
• “Protest and the Culture War in Singapore,” in Terence Chong (ed.), Singapore: Navigating Differences: Integration in Singapore, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak, 2020, pp. 129-147.
• “Arrested Multiculturalisms: Race, Capitalism and State Formation in Malaysia and Singapore,” in Richard T. Ashcroft and Mark Bevir (eds.), Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth, Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice, University of California Press, 2019, pp. 191-211.
• “Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Cultural Politics of Redeveloping Kowloon East, Hong Kong,” in Anoma Pieris (ed.), Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space, Routledge, 2019, pp. 221-236. 
• “Southeast Asia,” in Anthony Orum (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
• “Legal Pluralism, Patronage Secularism and Prophetic Christianity in Singapore,” in Jaclyn Neo, Arif Jamal and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Regulating Religion: Norms, Modes, and Challenges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 256-275.
• “Aspirations in Urban(izing) Southeast Asia,” with Tim Bunnell and Ng Huiying, in Rita Padawangi (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 54-63.
• “Post-colonial Nation Building and Identity Contestations,” in John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-Cheng Lo (eds.), Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 525-33.  
• “Grace, Megachurches, and the Christian Prince,” in Terence Chong (ed.), Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asian Cities, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, pp. 181-206.
• “Conclusion: Urban Agency and Future Asias,” in Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, Berlin: JOVIS Verlag GmbH, 2018, pp. 305-10.
• With Tim Bunnell (eds), Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, Berlin: JOVIS Verlag GmbH, 2018.
• “Family Justice, ‘Asian Values’ and the Politics of Ambivalence in Singapore,” Asian Journal of Social Science, 2018, 46 (4-5): 467-83.
• With Chih-Ming Wang (eds), Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017.
• “Conclusion: The Political Unconscious of Inter-Asia,” in Chih-Ming Wang and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.), Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017, pp. 219-24.
• “Choreographing Singapore’s Utopia by the Bay,” in Tim Simpson (ed.), Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, pp. 97-120.
• “Secular Space, Spiritual Community and the Hybrid Urbanisms of Christianity in Hong Kong and Singapore,” International Sociology, 2016, 31 (4): 432-49.
• With Peter van der Veer, “Introduction: The Sacred and the Urban in Asia,” International Sociology, 2016, 31 (4): 367-74.

Total lifetime publications: 34 journal articles, 5 edited books, 29 book chapters