| Description |
1 online resource (318 pages). |
| Series |
ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 6 |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng -- REFRAMING THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE. From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore's Historical Narrative / Derek Heng Thiam Soon -- Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World / Koh Keng We -- Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950s Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- The Politics of Fires in Post-1950s Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State / Loh Kah Seng -- Gender and Discipline in 'The Singapore Story': The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c. 1990 / Ernest Koh -- LOCATING IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS. Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography / Bonny Tan -- Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese / Sharon Wong Wai Yee -- Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford -- Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong / Caroline Plüss -- SINGAPORE AS TRANS-REGIONAL CONDUIT. Indian Media and the Lure of 'Uniquely Singapore' / Faizal bin Yahya and Arunajeet Kaur -- Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers / Janet M. Arnado -- Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance / Chris Hudson -- The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working -- Women in Singapore / Yoshimichi Yui. |
| Summary |
This book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Singapore -- History -- 19th century.
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Singapore -- History -- 20th century.
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Singapore -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Singapore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Ethnicity -- Singapore.
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Humanities.
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History.
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Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Singapore. (OCoLC)fst01205288
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Indexed Term |
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
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Sociology |
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Economics |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Heng, Derek Thiam Soon, editor.
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Aljunied, Syed Muhd. Khairudin, 1976- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reframing Singapore. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009 9789089640949 (OCoLC)318873972 |
| ISBN |
9789048508211 (electronic bk.) |
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9048508215 (electronic bk.) |
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9789089640949 (paperback) |
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9089640940 (paperback) |
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