Reframing Singapore: memory - identity - trans-regionalism

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Table of contents: 1 Introduction / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng REFRAMING THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 2 From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore’s Historical Narrative / Derek Heng Thiam Soon 3 Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World / Koh Keng We 4 Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950s Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 5 The Politics of Fires in Post-1950s Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State / Loh Kah Seng 6 Gender and Discipline in ‘The Singapore Story’: The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c. 1990 109 / Ernest Koh LOCATING IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS 7 Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography / Bonny Tan 8 Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese / Sharon Wong Wai Yee 9 Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford 10 Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong / Caroline Plüss SINGAPORE AS TRANS-REGIONAL CONDUIT 11 Indian Media and the Lure of ‘Uniquely Singapore’ / Faizal bin Yahya and Arunajeet Kaur 12 Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers / Janet M. Arnado 13 Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance / Chris Hudson 14 The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore / Yoshimichi Yui

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-90-8964-094-9
• Extent: Seite(n): 320
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ICAS Publications Series (6)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Sonstiges zu den Sozialwissenschaften ; 20. Jahrhundert ; historische Entwicklung ; Singapur ; soziale Integration ; kulturelle Identität ; multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; nationale Identität ; ethnische Beziehungen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Heng, Derek ; Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Amsterdam Univ. Press
• (where): Niederlande, Amsterdam
• (when): 2009

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-271540
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST