Brenda S.A. YEOH

Name: Brenda S.A. YEOH

Institution: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Brief Self Introduction:

Professor Brenda Yeoh is Professor (Provost’s Chair), Department of Geography, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, and coordinates the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Gender, Place and Culture and also serves on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of the the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Cultural Geographies; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal; Gender, Technology and Development; Urban Studies; and Progress in Human Geography, NIAS’ Gendering Asia Book Series, I.B. Tauris’ Monograph Series on Historical Geography, and the ARI-Springer Asia Series. She is deputy chair of the Commission on Population, International Geographical Union, and the Singapore coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and post-colonial cities; gender; migration and transnational communities. Her first book was Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore (Oxford University Press, 1996; reissued Singapore University Press, 2003). She also published Singapore: A Developmental City State (John Wiley, 1997, with Martin Perry and Lily Kong), Gender and Migration (Edward Elgar, 2000, with Katie Willis), Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2002, with Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang), Toponymics: A Study of Singapore Street Names (Eastern Universities Press, 2003, with Victor R. Savage), Theorising the Southeast Asian City as Text (World Scientific, 2003, with Robbie Goh), The Politics of Landscape in Singapore: Construction of “Nation” (Syracuse University Press, 2003, with Lily Kong), Approaching Transnationalisms (Kluwer, 2003, with Michael W. Charney and Tong Chee Kiong), State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2004, with Katie Willis), Migration and Health in Asia (Routledge, 2005, with Santosh Jatrana and Mika Toyota), Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers (Marshall Cavendish, 2005, with Shirlena Huang and Noor Abdul Rahman), and Working and Mothering in Asia (NUS Press and NIAS Press 2007, with Theresa Devasahayam).

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BOOKS (FROM 2000)

Devasahayam, T.W. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities, Singapore: Singapore University Press and Denmark: NIAS Press, 2007.

Sleigh, A.C., H.L. Chee, B.S.A. Yeoh, K.H. Phua and R. Safman (eds.), Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2006.

Lee, Y.S. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting, London: Routledge, 2005.

Lorente, B.P., N. Piper, Shen H.H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, Singapore: Asia Research Institute, 2005.

Jatrana, S., M. Toyota and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Migration and Health in Asia, London: Routledge, 2005 [republished as paperback, 2006].

Huang, S., B.S.A. Yeoh and N. Abdul Rahman (eds.), Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers in Asia, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2005.

Yeoh, B.S.A. and T. Wong (eds.), Over Singapore 50 Years Ago: An Aerial View in the 1950s, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Archives of Singapore, 2007.

Teo, P.C.C., B.S.A. Yeoh, G.L Ooi and K.P.Y. Lai, Changing Landscapes of Singapore, Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Willis (eds.), State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific, London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Charney, M.W., B.S.A. Yeoh and C.K. Tong (eds.), Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora, Singapore: World Scientific and Singapore University Press, 2003.

Charney, M.W., B.S.A. Yeoh, and C.K. Tong (eds.), Asian Migrants and Education, Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Goh, R.B.H. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents and Interpretative Experiences, Singapore: World Scientific, 2003.

Kong, L. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The Politics of Landscape in Singapore: Constructions of “Nation”, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Pflegerl, J., S.E. Khoo, B.S.A. Yeoh and V. Koh (eds.), Researching Migration and the Family, Singapore: Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, 2003.

Savage, V.R. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Toponymics: A Study of Singapore Street Names, Singapore: Eastern Universities Press by Marshall Cavendish International, 2nd edition, 2004 (1st edition, 2003).

Yeoh, B.S.A., Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations in the Urban Built Environment, Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003 (first edition published in hardback by Oxford University Press, 1996).

Yeoh, B.S.A., M.W. Charney and C.K. Tong (eds.), Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home, Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Tan, E.S., B.S.A. Yeoh and J. Wang (eds.), Tourism Management and Policy: Perspectives from Singapore, Singapore: World Scientific, 2002.

Yeoh, B.S.A., P. Teo and S. Huang (eds.), Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region, London: Routledge, 2002.

Willis, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Gender and Migration. The International Library of Studies on Migration Series, edited by R. Cohen, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000.

Introduction of Overseas Partners’ Institution:

The Asia Research Institute, NUS
Widely recognized as an intellectual centre in the region for researchers on Asia from around the world, ARI aims to provide a world-class focus and resource for research on the Asian region, and ultimately becoming a world-leading hub for research on Asia. It engages the social sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond disciplines. Within NUS, ARI works particularly closely with the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Law and Design, to support doctoral and postdoctoral research, conferences, lectures, workshops, seminars, study groups and graduate study at the highest level. Specifically, the Asian Migration Research Cluster at ARI provides a conducive interdisciplinary and lively environment to explore issues arising from increased levels of human mobility in the region, both within and across national borders. Mobility of high-level professional and managerial personnel, unskilled labour migration and human trafficking all raise methodological and theoretical questions, and major policy issues, for human development.

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