#selectedwritings

“Collaboration, coercion and counteraction: British Centralisation Policy and 19th century “tax revolts” in Malaysia” in Altuğ Yalçıntaş  and Arne Heise (eds.) Decolonial Narratives in Economics : Alternative and Underrepresented Voices. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. 

“Framing the Mass Media Abortion Debate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore” in Christoph Bracks, Arndt Graf, and Patrick Keilbart (eds.) Towards the next 40 years of Southeast Asian Studies in Frankfurt. Essays in honour of Bernd Nothofer. Munich: Iudicium, 2024 (Frankfurt East Asian Studies, 6)  Biz Herman, Or Amma Panin, Elizabeth Wellman, Graeme Blair, Lindsey Pruett, Ken O. Opalo, Hannah Alarian, Allison Grossman, Yvonne Tan, Alex Dyzenhaus, and Nicholas Owsley. "RCTs in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality." PS: Political Science & Politics, 27 May 2022

"Piractical Headhunters yang semacam Melayu dan Cina: Creating the Native Other in the Mat Salleh Rebellions (1894-1905)" in Farish Noor and Peter Carey (eds.) "Race and Colonial Wars in 19th Century Southeast Asia" Amsterdam University Press, January 2021

"Food in the Counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency: Security and Hawking" in Justin Nordstrom (ed) "Battlefields and Homefronts: An Anthology of Food and Warfare, 1500-Present" University of Arkansas Press, 2021

Yvonne Tan, Imran Rasid, Jeremy Lim, Tang Ah Chai (eds.) "509 People Have Spoken / 509: Suara Rakyat, Suara Keramat / 509：⺠意 覺醒" Strategic Information and Research Development Centre & Mentor Publishing, 2018

“Raden Adjeng Kartini” in Candice Goucher (eds.) Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History, ABC-CLIO, 2022.

Creative non-fiction

"Indonesian and Malaysian Men Have One Thing That Is Shared, And It’s Not Pretty" Whiteboard Journal, 6 March 2025.

"Reflections from the Amoi Gaze on the Malay Dilemma: Pre-workings of a Manifesto" in Jordan Chan and Julia Merican (eds.) Obscuras, The Key Press, 2024.

Reprise after the meeting of a Biwa hōshi and Penglipur Lara, Kaleidoscope Japan: Online Exhibition 28 March - 24 April 2022

"Nationalising the Kebaya in the Nusantara" O for Other by Malaysian Design Archive, 8 Feb 2020

"Of Political Tsunami's Hope and its Hyperbolic Meanings" in Eric Goh (ed.) "Rasa Sayang" A+ WORKS of Art, 2019

"Ephemera Damansara" in Yvonne Tan (eds.) "Makna & Suara: Reflections from a Six-Month Project to Decenter Conversation" published by Projek Dialog, 2018

"Kiasuism: A Global Export" in Kong Hui (ed.) Printed Process, November 2019

"Glossary of What I think is Malaysia" published in Students In Resistance, Vol. 10, 12 August 2016

Regular Contributions at Projek Dialog

Op-eds

“A Conversation with Fa and Fon: A Twin Takeover of Designing Globalised Futurism” Search Magazine Vol. 02, January 2024

“A question of taste in regional culture wars” Malaysiakini, 24 April 2022

"The abortion debate in Malaysia" Malaysia Now, 25 Sep 2020

Climate Change

"Do urban megaprojects bring a sustainable, green future for Malaysia?" Malaysiakini, 18 December 2020

"Long, winding road to solving Selangor’s water crisis" Malaysia Now, 20 November 2020

"The Plastic Pandemic: Has COVID-19 shifted the Media Discourse on Plastics in Southeast Asia?" Climate Tracker and Break Free from Plastic, June 2020.

Fact sheets and country briefs on environmental issues in Malaysia to be available via “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”