Research
Interests
Political Economy Of Health; Theorizing Healing And "Alternative
Medicine"; Sociology And Anthropology Of Religion; Critique
Of Concepts And Categories In The Social Sciences.
Teaching Areas
Classical Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
of Everyday Life, Sociology of Gender.
Selected
Publications
-(with Syed Farid Alatas) Teaching Classical Theory in Singapore:
The Context of Eurocentrism. Teaching Sociology. (July 2001 or
Oct 2001, forthcoming)
-Reading Harriet Martineau in the context of Social Thought and
Social Theory. Akademika: Journal of Social Science and Humanities.
(2001, forthcoming).
-Making Sense of Religious Pluralism and Religious Harmony: The
Evidence from Singapore. Italian Review (2001)
-Rebuilding Institutional Structures in the Social Sciences through
Critique. International Sociological Association Pre-Congress
Volume. (2001)
-Moving Beyond Critique: Practising the Social Sciences in the
Context of Globality, Post-modernity and Post-coloniality. Southeast
Asian Journal of Social Science 28(1), 2000.
