Pheng Cheah

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Pheng Cheah is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pheng Cheah has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Philosophy and 6 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Pheng Cheah's work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers), Japanese History and Culture (4 papers) and Philippine History and Culture (4 papers). Pheng Cheah is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers), Japanese History and Culture (4 papers) and Philippine History and Culture (4 papers). Pheng Cheah collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Pheng Cheah's co-authors include Bruce Robbins, Elizabeth Grosz, Jonathan Culler, Drucilla Cornell, Judith Butler, David Fraser, David Damrosch, Barnor Hesse, Shu-mei Shih and Leo Ching and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Theory Culture & Society and Public Culture.

In The Last Decade

Pheng Cheah

36 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cosmopolitics : thinking and feeling beyond the nation

1998 890 citations Pheng Cheah, Bruce Robbins University of Minnesota Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pheng Cheah United States	17	948	411	363	258	214	43	1.7k
Laura Chrisman United Kingdom	14	997 1.1×	413 1.0×	249 0.7×	311 1.2×	219 1.0×	35	1.8k
Ella Shohat United States	19	1.2k 1.3×	247 0.6×	341 0.9×	284 1.1×	262 1.2×	64	2.0k
David Chioni Moore United States	9	746 0.8×	277 0.7×	322 0.9×	247 1.0×	180 0.8×	22	1.5k
Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States	8	1.3k 1.3×	436 1.1×	215 0.6×	414 1.6×	445 2.1×	32	2.3k
Sara Suleri	5	802 0.8×	360 0.9×	275 0.8×	297 1.2×	176 0.8×	6	1.7k
Caren Kaplan United States	16	1.1k 1.2×	161 0.4×	325 0.9×	199 0.8×	290 1.4×	34	1.9k
Leela Gandhi Australia	10	666 0.7×	253 0.6×	250 0.7×	232 0.9×	139 0.6×	27	1.3k
Lorraine O'Donnell United States	2	982 1.0×	292 0.7×	210 0.6×	315 1.2×	240 1.1×	3	1.7k
Inderpal Grewal United States	17	1.4k 1.4×	149 0.4×	386 1.1×	247 1.0×	276 1.3×	34	2.2k
Iain Chambers Italy	14	662 0.7×	206 0.5×	161 0.4×	195 0.8×	157 0.7×	70	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pheng Cheah

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pheng Cheah. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pheng Cheah based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pheng Cheah. Pheng Cheah is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Cheah, Pheng & David Damrosch. (2019). What Is a World (Literature)?. 4(3). 305–329. 7 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng, David Damrosch, & César Domínguez. (2019). ¿Qué es un mundo? ¿Qué es una literatura mundial? Una discusión. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 287–315. 1 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2016). What Is a World?. 55 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2014). World against Globe: Toward a Normative Conception of World Literature. New Literary History. 45(3). 303–329. 36 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2013). The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization. boundary 2. 40(2). 81–112. 4 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng & Suzanne Guerlac. (2009). Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political.

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Cheah, Pheng. (2009). The Material World of Comparison. New Literary History. 40(3). 523–545. 10 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2008). What is a world? On world literature as world-making activity. Daedalus. 137(3). 26–38. 37 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2007). Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor. boundary 2. 34(1). 79–113. 15 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2007). Inhuman Conditions. Harvard University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2006). Cosmopolitanism. Theory Culture & Society. 23(2-3). 486–496. 45 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2003). Spectral Nationality. Columbia University Press eBooks. 61 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (2002). ‘Affordance’, or vulnerable freedom. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 28(4). 451–462.

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Cheah, Pheng. (1999). Spectral Nationality: The Living On [sur-vie] of the Postcolonial Nation in Neocolonial Globalization. boundary 2. 26(3). 225–252. 25 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng & Bruce Robbins. (1998). Cosmopolitics : thinking and feeling beyond the nation. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 890 indexed citations breakdown →

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Butler, Judith, Drucilla Cornell, Pheng Cheah, & Elizabeth Grosz. (1998). The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell. diacritics. 28(1). 19–42. 53 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (1996). Interpretation, translation, multicultural recognition: some limits. [Review essay: Laster, Kathy and Taylor, Veronica L. Interpreters and the Legal System (1994).]. Australian Feminist Law Journal. 6. 185. 1 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng, et al.. (1996). Thinking Through the Body of the Law. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 27 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (1995). Violent Light: The Idea of Publicness in Modern Philosophy and in Global Neocolonialism. Social Text. 163–163. 9 indexed citations

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Cheah, Pheng. (1993). Situations of value: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on feminism and cultural work in a postcolonial neocolonial conjuncture. Australian Feminist Studies. 8(17). 141–161. 2 indexed citations

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