Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Provost’s Chair in Sociology
 
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Journal Articles
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Teo, Youyenn. 2022. “Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem.” Current Sociology. Online first.

Teo, Youyenn. 2016. “Not everyone has 'maids': class differentials in the elusive quest for work-life balance.” Gender, Place & Culture 23(8): 1164-78.

Teo, Youyenn. 2015. “Interrogating the limits of welfare reforms in Singapore.” Development and Change 46(1): 95-120.

Teo, Youyenn. 2013. “Support for deserving families: inventing the anti-welfare familialist state in Singapore.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 20(3): 387-406.

Teo, Youyenn. 2010. “Shaping the Singapore family, producing state and society.” Economy and Society 39(3): 337-359.

Teo, Youyenn and Nicola Piper. 2009. “Foreigners in our homes: linking migration and family policies in Singapore.” Population, Space and Place 15(2): 147-159.
Books
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張優遠。2022.《不平等的樣貌:新加坡繁榮神話背後,社會底層的悲歌》Chinese edition of This is What Inequality Looks Like. Taiwan: Linking Publishing.

Teo, You Yenn. 2018. This is What Inequality Looks Like. Singapore: Ethos Books.

Teo, Youyenn. 2011. Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society. London and New York: Routledge.
Book Chapters
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Teo, Youyenn. 2022. “Educational Inequality and Development” in The Routledge Handbook on Global Development, edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong. London; New York: Routledge.

Teo, Youyenn. 2021. “From public sociology to collective knowledge-production.” Pp. 54-65 in The Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology, edited by Leslie Hossfeld, Brooke Kelly, and Cassius Hossfeld. London; New York: Routledge.

Teo, Youyenn. 2018. “Falling Short: Class and the Performance of the Familial.” Pp. 96-111 in Family and Population Change in Singapore: A unique case in the global family changes, edited by Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Shu Hu. London: Routledge.

Teo, You Yenn. 2017. “Poor people don’t like oats either: how myths about poverty and wealth matter,” pp. 239-248 in Living with Myths in Singapore, edited by Loh Kah Seng, Jack Chia, and PJ Thum. Singapore: Ethos Books.

Teo, Youyenn. 2017. “The Singaporean welfare state system: with special reference to public housing and the Central Provident Fund,” pp. 383-397 in The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems, edited by Christian Aspalter. London; New York: Routledge.
Keynote Speeches & Editorship of Special Issues
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Selected speeches:

“Everyday consequences of inequality,” Singapore Management University Lien Fung Colloquium, September 8, 2022.

“Growing up unequal,” 12th Singapore Children’s Society Lecture, Singapore, September 15, 2018.

“Falling Short: Performing the familial while low-income in contemporary Singapore.” International Sociological Association PhD Lab, National University of Singapore, July 24, 2015.

Editorship on Special Issue:
“Asian Families as Sites of Politics.” Economy and Society, 39(3), August 2010.
Opinions & Commentaries
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Teo, You Yenn. October 22, 2022. “Inequality and social good: a new culture of shared wellbeing requires reforming a system that promotes individualism.” AcademiaSG.

Ng, Kok Hoe and Teo You Yenn. 2022. “A living wage for Singapore.” SID Directors Bulletin 2022 Q2, published by the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Teo, You Yenn and Ng Kok Hoe. January 14, 2022. “How people think about basic needs.” The Karyawan, published by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP).

Teo, You Yenn and Ng Kok Hoe. October 13, 2021. “How study drew up what makes for basic living standard in Singapore.” The Straits Times.

Teo, You Yenn. February 24, 2021. “Be decent mother, go through PSLE”: when children’s education becomes parental care labor.” AcademiaSG.
Other Research Outputs/Projects
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Ng, Kok Hoe; Teo You Yenn; Neo Yu Wei; Ad Maulod; Stephanie Chok; Wong Yee Lok. 2021. What People Need in Singapore: A Household Budgets Study.

Ng, Kok Hoe; Teo You Yenn; Neo Yu Wei; Ad Maulod; Ting Yi Ting. 2019. What Older People Need in Singapore: A Household Budgets Study.