FASS Staff Profile

DR GEORGE BAYLON RADICS
SENIOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Appointment:
SENIOR LECTURER
Office:
AS1/04-28
Email:
socrgb@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
6516 8072
Fax:
Homepage:
https://nus.academia.edu/GeorgeRadics
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Brief Introduction

Dr. George Radics received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.  He currently teaches Law and Society, Selected Topics in Law and Justice, Social Thought and Social Theory, and Sociology of Emotions.  After receiving his PhD, Dr. Radics studied law at the University of Washington, where he obtained his JD with a concentration in Asian law.  Dr. Radics served as a research attorney at the Supreme Court of Guam for two years after graduating from law school.  His interests are law and minorities, sociology of the law, criminal law, sociology of emotions, postcolonial studies, and Southeast Asia.

He is an Associate Editor of the Philippine Sociological Review and Sociology Compass, and serves as a book review editor for the Asian Journal of Social Science.

Dr Radics received the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021.  He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (U.K.).

He holds a joint appointment with NUS College and is the Convenor of the Global Studies Programme (2023-2025).


Teaching Areas

Department of Sociology (2014 - present)

  • SC1101E: Making Sense of Society
  • SC2212: Sociology of Deviance
  • SC2216: Emotions and Social Life
  • SC3101: Social Thought and Social Theory
  • SC3215: Law and Society
  • SC3229: Comparing Deviance
  • SC4883: Selected Topics in Law and Justice

NUS College (2022 - present)

  • NHS2059: Law in the Making

College of Humanities and Sciences (2023 - present)

  • HS2915: Beyond the Good and Evil of Drugs

Department of Southeast Asian Studies (2012 - 2014)

  • SE2880: Law in Southeast Asia
  • SE3219: Island Southeast Asia
  • SE5244: Country Studies: Philippines (Graduate Level)

Research Interests

Sociology of the Law, Law & Society, Criminal Law, Criminology, Sociology of Emotions, Post-Colonial Studies, Southeast Asian Studies


Publications

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

  • with Pablo Ciocchini (eds.) Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-62563-1 (2019, paperback available April 2021). Available here.
  • with Pablo Ciocchini (eds.) Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World. London: Palgrave. ISBN: 978-3-031-17917-4 (2023).  Available at Palgrave or Barnes & Noble.

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

  • with Lynette J. Chua, "SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION: Stigmatisation, identities and the law: Asian and comparative perspectives," International Journal of Law in Context, 17, no. 3 (2021).
  • with Pablo Ciocchini, "Introduction to Special Issue: Continuities and Ruptures in Global North Legal Pressures on Global South Societies," Asian Journal of Social Science, 46, no. 4/5 (2018).

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • "Strategic litigation in the “soft-authoritarian” state of Singapore: Attempts to decriminalize sodomy from 2010-2020," Oñati Socio-Legal Series (October 2023) First Online: DOI LINK: HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.35295/OSLS.IISL.1698
  • “Transforming the “Lazy Native”: Race, American Education, and Violence against Minorities in the Philippines,” Philippine Sociological Review, Vol. 70 (2022), pp. 131-152.
  • with Crystal Abidin, “Racial Harmony and Sexual Violence: Uneven Regulation and Legal Protection Gaps for Influencers in Singapore,” Policy & Internet, 14, no. 3 (2022): 1-21.
  • with Jayson Lamchek, “Dealing with the Past or Moving Forward? Transitional Justice, the Bangsamoro Peace Agreement and Federalism in the Philippines” International Criminal Law Review, 20, no. 3 (2021): 1-38.
  • "Challenging antisodomy laws in Singapore and the former British colonies of ASEAN," Journal of Human Rights, 20, no. 2 (2021): 211-227
  • “#Ready4Repeal? Viewing s 377A of the Singaporean Penal Code Through the Lens of Legal Actors and Artists.” Australian Journal of Asian Law, 20, no, 1, article 16 (2019): 1-14.
  • with Vineeta Sinha, "Regulation of Religion and Granting of Public Holidays: The Case of Tai Pucam in Singapore," Asian Journal of Social Science, 46, no. 4/5 (2018).
  • with Poon Yee Suan, “Amos Yee, Free Speech, and Maintaining Religious Harmony in Singapore,” University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, 12, no. 2 (2016).
  • “Section 377A in Singapore and the (De)Criminalization of Homosexuality,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 15, no. 2 (2015).
  • “Singapore: A ‘Fine’ City—British Colonial Criminal Sentencing Policies and its Lasting Effects on the Singaporean Corporal State,” Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 12, no. 3 (2014): 57-90.
  • “Singapore’s Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act (Chapter 190A) and its Application to Thailand,” Thammasat Law Journal, 43, no. 2 (2014).
  • “Decolonizing Singapore’s Sex Laws: Tracing Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 45, no. 1 (2013): 57-99.
  • “Bank Privatization in Vietnam: Examining Changes to Management in Vietnam’s New Banking Law, Decree No 59/2009/ND-CP,” Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 19, no. 2 (2010): 331 – 351.
  • with Peter Berlinger, Nadia B. Pulmano, Finn Kjaerulf & Ernesto A. Anasarias, “Community Narratives of Social Trauma: A Case Study on a Sitio in Mindanao,” Psyke og Logos, 30, no. 1 (2009): 153-177.
  • “Balikatan Exercises in the Philippines and the U.S. War Against Terrorism,” Stanford Journal on East Asian Affairs, 4, no. 2 (2004): 115 - 127.
  • “Globalization, Corruption and the Structural Historical Perspective.” Philippine Sociological Review, 49, no. 1-2 (2001): 39-58.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • with Alpha Pontanal, “Alternative Lawyering versus Pro Bono: From Challenging an Authoritarian Government to Working with the State,” in Helena Whalen-Bridge (ed.), The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022): pp. 145-161. Avalable here.
  • "Being LGB in Singapore" in Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: History, Culture and Law, Vol. 3, ed. Paula Gerber. New York: Praeger Press (2021): pp 138-153.
  • "Human Rights in Asia" in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. ed. Howard Chiang. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons (2019): pp. 784-789.

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNALS

  • "PhD + JD = Complicated!" Interview with the Southeast Asian Studies Center at the University of Washington on February 1, 2016, available at https://jsis.washington.edu/seac/news/phd-jd-complicated-george-radics/.
  • “Writing on Human Rights from Southeast Asia,” American Sociological Association Section on Human Rights Quarterly Newsletter. Spring 2015. Pp. 6-7.
  • with James Rowlins, “Introduction,” IAFOR J. Media, Comm. & Film, 1, no. 1 (2013): 5-7.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Review of the Book Conversations in Postcolonial Thought by Katy Sian (eds.). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38, no. 8 (2016)
  • Review of the Book Out of the Shadows: Violent Conflict and the Real Economy of Mindanao by Francisco Lara and Steven Schoofs (eds.). AsiaMindanaw, 1, no. 1 (2014): 229- 231.


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