Hideki Kitamura

Ph.D. (Sociology)

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Research Interest: Economic sociology; anthropology of Islam; historical sociology; Malaysia; Islamic finance

Hideki Kitamura is a recipient of the President's Graduate Fellowship. His research interest lies in economic sociology, historical sociology, and anthropology of Islam. He has published on Islamic finance and banking in Malaysia in international journals. 

Hideki Kitamura's dissertation will describe a social history of Islamic finance in Malaysia.

Contact Info
Email ID: hideki_kitamura@u.nus.edu

Publications:

  1. Kitamura, Hideki. 2022. "The historical contingency of religious normativity: Local practices in Malaysian Islamic banking." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 12(2): 513-524. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/720511.
  2. Kitamura, Hideki. 2021. “Policymakers’ Logic on Islamic Banking: Islamic Banking as an Ethno-Political Tool in Malaysia.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 40(2): 245-265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1868103420972406.
  3. Kitamura, Hideki. 2021. “Islamic Finance as an Ethno-Political Agenda in the 1980s: An Inquiry into the Role of Islamic Finance Pioneers.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 36(1): 98-123.
  4. Kitamura, Hideki. 2020. “A Reconsideration of Middle Eastern Islamic Bank Practices in Malaysia.” Journal of Business Anthropology, 9(1): 66-87. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i1.5967.
  5. Kitamura, Hideki. 2020. “Who Pioneered Islamic Banking in Malaysia? The Background of the Pioneers of Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad.” Contemporary Islam, 14: 75-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-019-00443-w.