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When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore (2023)
Journal Article
Shee, S. Y., Woods, O., & Kong, L. (2023). When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12654

By thinking with and through Buddhist cosmology, this paper explores the emergence of an ethical sensibility—what we call planetary cosmopolitanism—that is based on not just a spatially expanded ethic of care to ecological worlds, but also a temporal... Read More about When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore.

Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore (2022)
Journal Article
Shee, S. Y. (2022). Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore. Geoforum, 136, 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.001

Engagements with personal digital data are growing in recent decades, as many digital technologies offer any interested user the opportunity to track their habits and practices. Yet, far from being objective and neutral conduits of knowledge, digital... Read More about Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore.

Lived religion in a digital age: technology, affect and the pervasive space-times of ‘new’ religious praxis (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, Q., Woods, O., Kong, L., & Shee, S. Y. (2024). Lived religion in a digital age: technology, affect and the pervasive space-times of ‘new’ religious praxis. Social and Cultural Geography, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2121979

This paper explores how Christian practices of prayer are being reconfigured through digital media in Singapore. Although digital technologies are an area of burgeoning interest amongst social and cultural geographers, the ways in which these technol... Read More about Lived religion in a digital age: technology, affect and the pervasive space-times of ‘new’ religious praxis.

Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore (2021)
Journal Article
Shee, S. Y. (2023). Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore. Cultural Geographies, 30(1), 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211065047

This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people’s everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examinin... Read More about Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore.

Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore (2021)
Journal Article
Shee, S. Y. (2023). Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore. Gender, Place and Culture, 30(1), 70-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2021.1994931

Recent studies on emotional geographies of physical activity have furnished valuable insights into the affective and emotional intensities of space in mediating physical activity engagements. Nevertheless, I suggest there is potential in departing fr... Read More about Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’: navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore.

The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care (2021)
Journal Article
Woods, O., & Shee, S. Y. (2021). The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care. Geoforum, 124, 46-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.016

This paper explores some of the ways in which “care” is being transformed in response to the mediatory role of digital technologies. Digital mediation has caused care to become an increasingly cross-border practice, and a more expansive construct, th... Read More about The digital void of voluntourism: Here, there and new currencies of care.