Eric C. Thompson

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Eric C. Thompson

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PROFILE

Eric C. Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS, he completed a PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Los Angeles. He teaches anthropology, gender studies, Southeast Asian studies, and research methods. His research spans field sites across Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. His research interests include transnational networking, gender and power dynamics, urbanism, agrarian transitions, and ASEAN regionalism.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender Studies; Agrarian Transitions; Urbanism; Transnationalism

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Thompson, E.C., Pattana Kitiarsa and Suriya Smutkupt (2016) “From Sex Tourist to Son-in-Law: Emergent Masculinities and Transient Subjectivities among Farang Men in Thailand,” Current Anthropology 57(1):53-71.
  • Rigg, J., A. Salamanca and E.C. Thompson (2016) “The Puzzle of East Asia’s Persistent Smallholder,” Journal of Rural Studies 43(1):118-133.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2015) ““Rural Transformations,” In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia, Meredith Weiss, ed. pp.236-248. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2014) “Immigration, Society, and Modalities of Citizenship in Singapore,” Citizenship Studies 18(3/4):315-331.
  • Bunnell, T., D. Parthasarathy and E.C. Thompson, eds. (2013) Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.
  • Jongwilaiwan, R. and E.C. Thompson (2013) “Thai Wives in Singapore and Transnational Patriarchy,” Gender, Place and Culture 20(3):363-381.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2013) “In Defense of Southeast Asia: A Case for Methodological Regionalism,” TRaNS: Trans-National and -Regional Studies of Southeast Asia, 1(2):1-22.
  • Thompson, E.C., D. Parthasarathy and T. Bunnell (2013) “Place, Society and Politics across Rural and Urban Asia,” In: Bunnell, T., D. Parthasarathy and E.C. Thompson, eds., Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2013) “Urban Cosmopolitan Chauvinism and the Politics of Rural Identity,” In: Bunnell, T., D. Parthasarathy and E.C. Thompson, eds., Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2012) “Anthropology in Southeast Asia: National Traditions and Transnational Practices,” Asian Journal of Social Science 40(6):664-689.
  • Abidin, C. and E.C. Thompson (2012) “Bymylife.com: Cyberfeminities and Commercial Intimacy in Blogshops,” Women’s Studies International Forum 35(6):467-477.
  • Thompson, E.C. (2012) “The World beyond the Nation in Southeast Asian Museums,” Sojourn 27(1):54-83.