Reframing Singapore : memory, identity, trans-regionalism /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Heng, Derek Thiam Soon (Editor), Aljunied, Syed Muhd. Khairudin, 1976- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009.
Series:	ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 6.
Subjects:	Singapore > History > 19th century. Singapore > History > 20th century. Singapore > Social conditions > 19th century. Singapore > Social conditions > 20th century. Ethnicity > Singapore. Singapour > Histoire > 19e siècle. Singapour > Histoire > 20e siècle. Ethnicité > Singapour. Humanities. History. Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. Economics, finance, business and management. HISTORY. HISTORY > General. Ethnicity. Social conditions Singapore. East Asia. History & Archaeology. Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East. Social Conditions. Social Sciences. Sociology & Social History. 1800-1999 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines Sociology Economics Electronic books.
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Table of 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.