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Loh Soon How

@lohsoonhow.bsky.social

PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com

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Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aren't humans nature too? During my morning run by the trees, I gently brush my hand on leaves of low hanging branches. It was rather therapeutic to feel the different textures and, before I realised, I was talking to trees in my head. And the birds' chirping somehow sounded more melodic. ...

Mark Doidge@markdoidge.bsky.social · 5d ago

Humanities & arts should be embedded across all universities as the questions & approaches they champion are vital to all disciplines. Having moved from a university that was influenced by the arts & humanities to one that isn’t, the latter (science & tech focused) needs arts & humanities more.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Is "fewer, larger centres of arts and humanities scholarship and education" really better? Does REF or QS or other much-cited data attest this? Or, do these subjects (often quite light on kit and costs) flourish across a range of sizes and institutional types? Evidence would be a fine thing. 3/3

Lars Cornelissen@lcornelissen.bsky.social · 2w ago

@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique

In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...

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Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · last wk.

One reason this quote from Charles Mills’ Racial Contract is is so important is in showing the flipped time structure rationalizing and erasing the effects of destruction even before it has taken place. The people are nonexistent before they’re even removed. Then they were never there.

"The basic sequence goes something like this: there were no people there in the first place; in the second place, they’re not improving the land; and in the third place –oops! – they’re already all dead anyway (and honestly, there really weren’t that many to begin with), so there are no people there, as we said in the first place” (40)
Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 2w ago

A good article by @chongjaian.bsky.social pointing out the tensions regarding identities, such as that of Chinese, which cannot be understood simplistically as just ethnic, racial, cultural, or political terms but requiring a historicity of all these factors within contextual and situational frames.

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Chong Ja Ian@chongjaian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thanks to @zaobao & @thinkchina for reaching out to me to write this piece. It remains curious to me how many people see the movie Dear You as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. People either have to unquestioningly endorse it or are seen to completely reject it. www.thinkchina.sg/society/how-...

Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thrilled to be quoted in this Instagram post on "Interracial marriages in Singapore" by the Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA): www.instagram.com/p/Da4oQJCGfR...

Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA) on Instagram: "Interracial marriages reflect the evolving fabric of our society and can act as a lens into the changing ways we understand and negotiate id...

180 likes, 4 comments - rima_singapore on July 17, 2026: "Interracial marriages reflect the evolving fabric of our society and can act as a lens into the changing ways we understand and negotiate iden...

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fabius@fabius.bsky.social · 2w ago

At some point last year I read most of what Benedict Anderson wrote on NLR and I find him to be such a pleasant read. Not the most incredible insights, nor is he "right" all the time, but just such a panoramic vision of the processes of nationalism across the world archive.ph/ZglTE

About four years ago I taught a graduate seminar at Yale University on nationalism, and at the outset I asked every student to state their national identity, even if only provisionally. There were three students in the class who, to my eyes, seemed to be ‘Chinese’ from their facial features and skin colour. Their answers surprised me and everyone else in the room. The first, speaking with an absolutely West Coast American accent, firmly said he was ‘Chinese’, though it turned out he was born in America and had never been to China. The second quietly said he was ‘trying to be Taiwanese’. He came from a KMT family that had moved to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, but was born in Taiwan, and identified there: so, not ‘Chinese’. The third said angrily, ‘I’m a Singaporean, dammit. I’m so tired of Americans thinking I’m Chinese, I’m not!’ So it turned out the only Chinese was the American.
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3w ago

it’s amazing how often the solution to endlessly multiplying pedagogical problems turns out to be restoring an actual pedagogical relationship between instructors and students

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3w ago

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.

Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 4w ago

Rest in peace, Chua Mia Tee. A pioneer artist of the social realist tradition in Singapore, his work depicts the struggles and life of everyday Singaporeans through Singapore's transformative years from the 1950s. His paintings often reflect our grappling of ... www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/ar...

Chua Mia Tee: Singaporean social realism master dies at 94

Remembering Chua Mia Tee, the Singaporean master of social realism, celebrated for his iconic oil paintings, who has died at the age of 94. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com...

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Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last mo.

Every minute of this podcast, William says something thoughtful and interesting. And just as he's coming to the end of his point - he then sparks off another thought. It really is a brilliant conversation where we discuss India, Pakistan, Palestine and so much more! 👇🏼

Dr Luke Walker@drlukewalker.com · last mo.

🔥 What a combination - @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social! So much here: - Palestine - India - absence of colonial history in schools - wilful ignorance of politicians & media - and the East India Company's lasting corruption of British democracy 🤑 youtu.be/13zQVPW9LjU?...

Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · last mo.

Nostalgia farming, as coined by Kai Xiang here, is arguably not unique to Singapore in this AI onslaught. Its harms are real, making it much harder for us to discern the authenticity of photos and videos of history, reducing their rich contexts and contents which frames history uncritically. ...

Kai@kaixiang.info · last mo.

Boomers can’t stop using AI to create fake images of Singapore history. I write about what we're losing to the scourge of AI-generated history that's taking over Singapore's boomer-centric online spaces:

Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

While blocking such malicious posts with xenophobic and Sinocentric intent helps, "[m]ore importantly, ... Singaporeans should also be discerning and careful with what they are consuming online, and also question the source or intention of such videos" www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/so...

Singapore orders social media sites to block content, likely from China-based platform, targeting Indian community

The authorities said the content selectively used images and footage of crowded streets to back claims that Singapore is "overcrowded" with Indians.

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Institute for Palestine Studies@palestinestudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵Every month of May since 1948, Palestinians, wherever they are gathered in the homeland or the diaspora, commemorate the anniversary of the disaster that befell them as a people: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

Meanings of the Nakba

Highlight - Transformations through Time and Place - Every 15 May since 1948, Palestinians, wherever they are gathered in the homeland or the diaspora, commemorate the anniversary of the disaster that...

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William Dalrymple@willdalrymple.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

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Loh Soon How@lohsoonhow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a meaningful contribution to literature, illustrating the "persistent dilemma" civil society actors in Singapore face: "whether engaging with authoritarian data risks legitimizing the very systems being challenged, and whether refusal to engage preserves credibility or cedes power".

Kai@kaixiang.info · 3mo ago

This is a little late, but my second peer-reviewed journal article was published (open access) earlier this year, and looks at how civil society experiences censorship and control over data in Singapore. Read it on the International Journal of Communication: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...