Al Lim

Al Lim is a PhD candidate in the combined Anthropology and Environmental Studies program at Yale University. His dissertation research explores cryptocurrency in Thailand, and his previous publications have been featured in Environmental Research Letters, Sustainability, and Singapore Policy Journal. He is a visiting researcher at Chulalongkorn University’s Political Science Department and was an IvyPlus Exchange Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an MSc in Urbanisation and Development from LSE (Overall Best Performance) and a B. A. (Hons; summa cum laude) in Urban Studies from Yale-NUS College.

Al is also the Chair of the Association of Thai Students in the USA (ATSA) and is on the Thai Lao Cambodia (TLC) Studies Association board. At Yale, he coordinated the Environmental Anthropology Collective, worked as a Graduate Fellow at the Asian American Cultural Center, and led a range of initiatives through the Council on Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Graduate Student Committee and Southeast Asia Movement at Yale. His poetry, translations, and literary reviews have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies, such as Tupelo Quarterly, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Twin Cities (Landmark Books). He has also previously worked at Deloitte and the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

 

Selected Publications

2022 Sustainability as a Moral Discourse: Its Shifting Meanings, Exclusions, and Anxieties. Sustainability 2022, 14, 3095. (Co-authored with Shoko Yamada, Lav Kanoi, Vanessa Koh, and Michael R. Dove) 

2022 ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: Anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure(s). Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 2(1). (Co-authored with Lav Kanoi, Shoko Yamada, Vanessa Koh, and Michael R. Dove)

2021 Rewriting Food Insecurity Narratives in Singapore. In Hyun Bang Shin, Murray Mckenzie, and Do Young Oh (Eds.), COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-Pandemic World (pp. 239–248). London, UK: LSE Press. 

2021 Reframing Conservation and Development Perspectives on Bushmeat. Environmental Research Letters 17(1). (Co-authored with Wen Zhou, Kaggie Orrick, and Michael R. Dove)