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John Brown University
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Dr. Joshua Babcock's research explores the intersections of law, society, and culture, with a particular focus on socioeconomic development and multilingual education policy in Asia. His work incorporates perspectives from Asian studies, history, and comparative/international law. Babcock's recent publications examine the complex interplay of race, language, and identity, particularly in Singapore. These works analyze how perceptions of language, such as Singlish, and racial categories are constructed and reinforced through social and institutional practices. His scholarship contributes to theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and challenges binary understandings of race and language in postcolonial contexts.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 19
- Citations: 66
Selected Publications
- Semiotic Determinacy: Sovereign Citizens' Approach to Legal Language (2025) DOI
- A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC” (2025) DOI
- “DecolonialPedagogies.Space”: Youth-led, Open-source Instructional Design as Experiential Learning and Meta-pedagogical Empowerment (2024) DOI
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