Books
2013. Being Malay in Indonesia: Hopes, Histories and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago. [ASAA SEAPS series] Singapore, Honolulu & Copenhagen: NUS Press, University of Hawai’i Press, and NIAS Press.
2016. The State We’re In: Reflecting on Democracy’s Troubles (editor, with Joanna Cook and Henrietta L. Moore). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. Access the introduction for free**
2013. The Social Life of Achievement (editor, with Henrietta Moore). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. Access the introduction for free**
2012. Sociality: New Directions (editor, with Henrietta Moore). Oxford & New York: Berghahn. Access the introduction for free.
2012. Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (editor, with Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, and Lee Wilson). London & New York: Routledge. Access the introduction for free.
Articles and book chapters
2018. ‘Suggestions of power: searching for efficacy in Indonesia’s hypnosis boom’. Ethos 46(1): 70-94. (linking the title to https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/etho.12190)
2018. ‘“Accept and Utilize”: Alternative Medicine, Minimality, and Ethics in an Indonesian Healing Collective.’ Medical Anthropology Quarterly, forthcoming. (linking the title to https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12448)
2017 . ‘On the Islamic authority of the Indonesian state: responsibility, suspicion, and acts of compliance’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 23(4): 709-726. (available Open Access!)
2017. ‘The edge of glory: theorising centre-periphery relations in and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands’. In Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia: Transforming the Margins, edited by Michaela Haug, Martin Rössler, and Anna-Teresa Grumblies, 65-79. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
2015. ‘For a verbatim ethnography’. In Anthropology, Theatre and Developmnet: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited by Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius, 305-333. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2012. ‘Utopian sociality. Online.’ Cambridge Anthropology 30(1): 80-94.
2011. ‘Bordering on immoral: piracy, education, and the ethics of cross-border cooperation in the Indonesian-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle’. Anthropological Theory 11(4): 441-464
2011. ‘On having achieved appropriation: anak berprestasi in Kepri, Indonesia’. In Ownership and Appropriation, edited by Veronica Strang and Mark Busse, 43-64. Oxford & New York: Berg.
2010. ‘Haunting Malayness: the multicultural uncanny in a new Indonesian province'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 16(4): 874-891.
2009. ‘Fruits of the orchard: land, space and state in Kepulauan Riau’. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 24(1): 60-88
2008. 'Rhyme and reason in the Riau Archipelago'. Cambridge Anthropology 27(3): 19-35
2007. 'How to win a beauty contest in Tanjung Pinang' . Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 41(1): 91-117