(Un)mapping the Punjab onto Singapore's Gurdwaras: Diasporic territorialities and decolonial spaces of Sikh socialisation

• Main Authors: SHEE, Siew Ying, WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2025
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Human Geography; Race and Ethnicity; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4148
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores an alternative territorial sensibility – ‘diasporic territoriality’ – that is rooted in the search for belonging outside of a putative ‘homeland’ amongst dis/placed communities. Drawing on ethnographic research with 26 members of Singapore’s Sikh diaspora, we examine the everyday...