Writing & Thoughts

Essays & Articles:

Sciences Po Energy Review: Editorial Introduction, Issue 1 (w/ Gabriele Romeo; Sciences Po European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, July 2024)

What’s in a name? Understanding the ‘Global City’ through global justice (Trinity College, June 2021)

‘Kino-eye’ for the environment? A companion essay to ‘Three Stories About Transformations’ (BSHR, Feb 2021; accompanies video essay)

Spatially Planning Singapore – A Bibliography (Planned City, Oct 2020)

Overcoming Empire’s Seduction: Decolonizing International Relations (E-IR, Jun 2020)

The ‘dim afterglow’ of imperialism – Postcolonialism and the United Nations in the 20th century (Oxford University History Society journal, Jun 2020)

On Cinema & Politics (Trinity College, May 2020)

Hold on, the statue’s buffering: Virtual museums for a post-physical world (Trinity College, Mar 2020)

“They do things differently there” – Travel and escape in international cinema (SGIFF, Dec 2020)

Broad Street Humanities Review: Introduction to Issue 1, Resistance (BSHR, Feb 2020)

Broad Street Humanities Review: Introduction to Issue 2, Value(s) (BSHR, May 2020)

Video Essays:

Three Stories about Transformations (BSHR, Feb 2021)

The Postmodernity of Blue Velvet: a video essay (Oxford class, Nov 2020)

Book Reviews:

Review of PAP v. PAP: The Party’s struggle to adapt to a changing Singapore by Cherian George and Donald Low (New Mandala, Dec 2020)

Cathars, Country, Cosmology’ – Montaillou by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (Oct 2020)

‘Not all is forgotten’ – State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang (Sept 2020)

Media Reviews:

Between Underworlds (Singapore International Film Festival, Nov 2020)

Saint Sebastian on the Streets (Singapore International Film Festival, Nov 2020)

MF DOOM, Transitioned: a eulogy (Jan 2021)

Bladee – 333 Review (Cherwell, Aug 2020)

Autoethnography and the cinematic album – good kids, m.A.A.d Cities (Aug 2020)

Something New, Old, Borrowed, Blue – Mouly Surya short film review (Aug 2020)

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo Review (Oxford Student, May 2020)

The Spirits Of Music Past, Present And Future (Oxford Student, May 2020)

Commentaries:

Exorcising Eugenics: a response to Andrew Sabisky (Feb 2020)

Beyond the Grave: Artistic Life After Bodily Death (Oxford Student, Aug 2020)

Presentations:

Democratization and Democratic Transition in Africa (Oxford class, Jan 2021)

Rudolf Bahro – The Basic Position of the Greens (Oxford class, Oct 2020)

The Anti-Totalitarian Thought of Bernard-Henri Lévy and Claude Lefort (Oxford class, Dec 2020)

Podcasts:

Writing a Personal Statement: History and Politics in Oxford (Oxford from the Inside access podcast, Oct 2020)