Reframing Singapore
Memory - Identity - Trans-Regionalism
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Over the past two decades, Singapore has advanced rapidly towards becoming a both a global city-state and a key nodal point in the international economic sphere. These developments have caused us to reassess how we understand this changing nation, including its history, population, and geography, as well as its transregional and transnational experiences with the external world. This collection spans several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and draws on various theoretical approaches and methodologies in order to produce a more refined understanding of Singapore and to reconceptialize the challenges faced by the country and its peoples.
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Foreword
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
Ernest Koh
LOCATING IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS
7 Textualising the Baba Identity: Insight 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 Household 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
About the Authors
BibliographiesAsian Studies: General Asian Studies
History: Asian History
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