CAPSTRANS: Director - Lenore Lyons

CAPSTRANS DIRECTOR

Associate Professor Lenore Lyons

Director, CAPSTRANS

Qualifications

BA (Hons) (Griffith University)
PhD (Griffith University)

Research Programs

Research Specialisation

My research focuses on two inter-related areas: the intersection between gender, the state and civil society in Southeast Asia, and the intersection between citizenship, nationality and identity in the Riau Islands which form the borderlands between Singapore and Indonesia.

I am recognised as the leading scholar on the feminist movement in Singapore. Drawing on critical race theory and third world feminism, my research makes an important contribution to feminist theoretical work on coalition and alliance building within multi-racial, multi-class contexts.

Languages

English and Mandarin.

Current Research Projects

In the shadow of Singapore: the limits of transnationalism in Insular Riau
Trans/national activism: Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia
Gender, the State and Civil Society in Singapore
Transnational feminisms: Reasserting a vision of global sisterhood?

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Lyons, L. (2007) “The Birth of AWARE” in Arora, M. (Ed) Small Steps, Giant Leaps: A History of AWARE and the Women's Movement in Singapore. Singapore: AWARE, pp. 84-117.
Lyons, L. (2007). “Action and Research” in Arora, M. (Ed) Small Steps, Giant Leaps: A History of AWARE and the Women's Movement in Singapore. Singapore: AWARE, pp. 118-149.
Lyons, L. (2007) “A curious space ‘in-between’: The public/private divide and gender-based activism in Singapore”, Gender, Technology and Development, 11:27-51.
Ford, M. and Lyons, L. (2007) “Making the most of what you’ve got: Sex Work and Class Mobility in the Riau Islands”, Indonesian Studies Working Papers No. 2, University of Sydney, May.
Lyons, L. (2007) “Social History of the Internet and its Uses in Indonesia with Merlyna Lim”, M/C Dialogue: Conversations in Media and Culture. Available at: http://www.dialogue.media-culture.org.au/node/20
(2006) Ford, M. and Lyons, L. “The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands”, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47(2):257-271.
(2005) Lyons, L. and J. Gomez “Moving beyond the OB markers: Rethinking the space of civil society in Singapore”, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 20(2):119-131.
(2005) Lyons, L. “Transient Workers Count Too? The intersection of citizenship and gender in Singapore’s civil society”, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 20(2):208-248.
(2005) “A politics of accommodation: Women and the People's Action Party in Singapore”, International Feminist Journal of Politics. 7(2): 223-257.
(2005) “Embodying transnationalism: The making of the Indonesian maid”, in Edyta Lorek-Jezinska and Katarzyna Wieckowska (eds.), Corporeal inscriptions. Representations of the Body in Cultural and Literary Texts and practices. Nicholas Copernicus University Press, Torun, Poland.

(2004) “Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Singapore: The Limits of Transnationalism”, in Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision: Local and Global Challenges, Zed Books, London, and Inanna Publications and Education, Toronto.
(2004) A State of Ambivalence: The Women's Movement in Singapore, Asian Social Science Series, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
(2004) “Sexing the nation: normative heterosexuality and the construction of the ‘good’ Singaporean citizen”, chapter in Anna Branach-Kallas and Katarzyna Wieckowska (eds.), The Nation of the Other, Nicholas Copernicus University Press, Torun.