Journal Articles (Selected)
“A Questionnaire on Diaspora and the Modern,” October, 186, 2023
“Citizenship: Flexible, Fungible, and Fragile,” Citizenship Studies, June 2022
“An Anthropologist at Davos: Civilization Reimagined at the Top of the World,” Current Anthropology, vol. 63, supplement 25 (Dec. 2022):S128-S147.
Lecture: "Near-Humans, Cloned Monkeys, and CRISPR Babies: Productive Uncertainty in China's Quest for Biosecurity," SSRC 2020 Fellow Lecture, Sept. 23, 2020
“What Marco Polo Forgot: Asian Art Negotiates the Global,” Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number 4, August 2012
“Powers of Sovereignty: State, People, Wealth, Life,” in Focaal, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 62 (2012): 24-35
“Translating Gender Justice in SE Asia: Situated Ethics, NGOs and Bio-Welfare,” in Excavating Gender Justice, Special Issue of Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 9 (2011) 26-48
“Citizenship in the Midst of Transnational Regimes of Virtue,” Political Power and Social Theory, Emerald, UK, 2009
“Neoliberalism as a Mobile Technology,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32 (3) 2007: 3-8
"Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making," Current Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 5 (Dec., 1996), pp. 737-762
“(Re)Articulations of Citizenship,” PS Online www.apsanet,org, Political Science and Politics (October, 2005): 763-65655
“Center, Periphery and Hierarchy: Gender in Southeast Asia,” in Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, ed. Sandra Morgen, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., 1989
“In a Time of Earthquakes: Chinese Artists Shake the World,” In Bibliotechnica, edited by John Tresh, Simon Schaffer and Pasquale Gagliardo, Palgrave, p. 175-206. Venice: Fondazone Giorgio Cini, 2018
“Buoy,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, October 24, 2017
“Why Singapore Trumps Iceland: Gathering Genes in the Wild,” Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 8 (May 2015) no. 3
"Landscapes of (un)Knowability," Dialogues in Human Geography 2018, Vol. 8(3) 351–354
"Why Singapore Trumps Iceland," Journal of Cultural Economy, 12 May 2015.
“A Milieu of Mutations: The Pluripotency and Fungbility of Life in Asia,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2013) 7:1-18
"Neoliberalism as a Mobile Technology," Trans Inst Br Geogr NS 32 3–8 2007
"The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia," Medical Anthropology (Feb. 1988), 28-42
“Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age, Review Essay,” Feminist Studies 13, no.3 (Fall 1987)
“Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age, Review Essay,” Feminist Studies 13, no.3 (Fall 1987)
"Japanese Factories, Malay Workers: Class and Sexual Metaphors in Malaysia," in Power and Difference: Gender in Southeast Asia, ed. J. Atkinson and S. Errington, Stanford University
MAKING THE BIOPOLITICAL SUBJECT: CAMBODIAN IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEE MEDICINE AND CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP IN CALIFORNIA. Soc. Sci. Med. Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1243-1257. 1995