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Performing the Singapore state 1988-1995Langenbach, Ray, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, Centre for Cultural Research January 2003 (has links)
This dissertation explores performances in Singapore as indicators of divergent visions of the nation-state. To understand the ways in which the government and artists contested (or, in some cases, agreed to not contest) the cultural ground requires an examination of performance as a semiotic mode in public life, a genre in art, and an instrument of cultural politics. A study of performance alone cannot sufficiently reveal the subtleties of governmental and artistic agency. The government and artists have mobilized specific figures of speech from a repertoire developed over centuries.These tropes are analysed for their uses, their performative instrumentality, and their discursive power. Tropes and performances coalesce and disseminate prevailing national, regional,and global ideologies. This study examines the power of aesthetic forms, and the aesthetics of power. Competing notions of performance in Singapore led to a cultural crisis in 1993-94. That historical punctum and its ramifications constitutes the primary object of this research, and is presented as a significant indicator of the state of the Singapore state at that time. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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The glocal queer in Singaporean gay writingCheung, Yuk-ting., 張旭廷. January 2011 (has links)
published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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Orientalizing Singapore: psychoanalyzing the discourse of `non-Western modernityGabrielpillai, Matilda 11 1900 (has links)
This study represents the scandal of current colonial racist ideologizing by focusing on the American
Orientalizing project in Singapore. It argues that, in the era of global capitalism and post-colonial
theory, the new colonialist epistemologies rely on collaborations between the ruling classes of the 'third
world' and 'first world' as well as a rhetoric of 'native' nationalism to contain threatening non-Western
economic success and to create 'third world' populations and governments that will not resist the
continuation of the Western/American colonizing project. Using a Marxist-Lacanian psychoanalytical
theory of hegemony, of a "libidinal politics" which focuses on the role of desire in national culture, this
thesis shows that the Singapore government has used American Orientalist ideology to effect
disempowering cultural changes in the people. Examining political and literary texts, I argue that the
Singapore government quotes American notions of 'Oriental' difference to keep "dangerous Western
(liberal) influences" from 'ethnically contaminating' the nation, and that it has hegemonized an
'Asian'/'Confucianist' nationalism by hystericizing and repressing the people's desire, leading
Singaporeans to disavow their location in a post-modern world. The Orientalizing of Singapore, where
Chinese identity has been produced as a masquerade of Western culture, has also generated a crisis in
male identity, involving an inward-looking escapist cultural narcissism that blocks a positive response to
historical realities. Paradoxically, the claim to a non-Western modernity has also been used to suppress
ethnic difference by producing ethnicity as 'fetish.' The East/West discourse that emerged from the
caning of an American teenager, Michael Fay, in Singapore is used to reveal the entrapment of
Singapore's 'Oriental' national identity in American colonial desire, and to argue that the perceived East
Asian 'cultural confidence' often spoken about today overlooks the fact that such cultural certitude
accrues from the East entering into the West's fantasy scenarios and staging itself as the other's object of
desire. This thesis suggests that current 'post-colonial' claims to "ethnic, non-Western" modernisms be viewed with some skepticism as possibly involving the ventriloquistic 'passing' of Western colonial
ideology as the voice of the 'racial other.'
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Local uniqueness in the global village : heritage tourism in SingaporeChang, T. C. (Tou-Chuang) January 1996 (has links)
It is commonly assumed that the development of tourist attractions, the formulation of tourism policies and the marketing of destination areas are dictated by the needs and interests of foreign visitors. What is ignored is the role that local factors and agencies bring to bear upon the process. This thesis is devoted to exploring the ways that local and non-local factors are responsible for shaping the form and function of tourism development. Drawing upon the case of Singapore, the thesis examines the country's heritage tourism phenomena as the outcome of 'local' and 'global' forces. This argument is elaborated along four lines of enquiry. They include a study of government policies on tourism, a look at entrepreneurs involved in heritage projects, an exploration of marketing and promotional strategies, and the examination of a particular urban landscape the Little India Historic District. To conceptualize the global-local nexus, the thesis adopts two bodies of theory. They are the 'locality concept' advanced by industrial geographers in the 1980s and writings on 'globalism-localism' by cultural/economic geographers in the 1990s. Both theoretical discussions reinforce the argument that place uniqueness is not necessarily sacrificed as a result of globalization. They also provide a way of viewing tourism geographies as the product of global and local forces.
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Singapore's constitutional model of pragmatic governance : a study of its emergence, its institutional structure and its sustainability /Murugesan, Suppiah. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2005. / Includes bibliography.
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Orientalizing Singapore: psychoanalyzing the discourse of `non-Western modernityGabrielpillai, Matilda 11 1900 (has links)
This study represents the scandal of current colonial racist ideologizing by focusing on the American
Orientalizing project in Singapore. It argues that, in the era of global capitalism and post-colonial
theory, the new colonialist epistemologies rely on collaborations between the ruling classes of the 'third
world' and 'first world' as well as a rhetoric of 'native' nationalism to contain threatening non-Western
economic success and to create 'third world' populations and governments that will not resist the
continuation of the Western/American colonizing project. Using a Marxist-Lacanian psychoanalytical
theory of hegemony, of a "libidinal politics" which focuses on the role of desire in national culture, this
thesis shows that the Singapore government has used American Orientalist ideology to effect
disempowering cultural changes in the people. Examining political and literary texts, I argue that the
Singapore government quotes American notions of 'Oriental' difference to keep "dangerous Western
(liberal) influences" from 'ethnically contaminating' the nation, and that it has hegemonized an
'Asian'/'Confucianist' nationalism by hystericizing and repressing the people's desire, leading
Singaporeans to disavow their location in a post-modern world. The Orientalizing of Singapore, where
Chinese identity has been produced as a masquerade of Western culture, has also generated a crisis in
male identity, involving an inward-looking escapist cultural narcissism that blocks a positive response to
historical realities. Paradoxically, the claim to a non-Western modernity has also been used to suppress
ethnic difference by producing ethnicity as 'fetish.' The East/West discourse that emerged from the
caning of an American teenager, Michael Fay, in Singapore is used to reveal the entrapment of
Singapore's 'Oriental' national identity in American colonial desire, and to argue that the perceived East
Asian 'cultural confidence' often spoken about today overlooks the fact that such cultural certitude
accrues from the East entering into the West's fantasy scenarios and staging itself as the other's object of
desire. This thesis suggests that current 'post-colonial' claims to "ethnic, non-Western" modernisms be viewed with some skepticism as possibly involving the ventriloquistic 'passing' of Western colonial
ideology as the voice of the 'racial other.' / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Local uniqueness in the global village : heritage tourism in SingaporeChang, T. C. (Tou-Chuang) January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
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Economic development and social growth in Singapore a case study, 1968-1986 /Tan, Philip Whatt-Chye. January 1988 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary (Canada), 1988. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Life in transit : the aspirations of Filipino medical workers in SingaporeAmrith, Megha Sambhavi January 2012 (has links)
No description available.
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Singapore, a modern asian city-state relationship between cultural and economic development /Sie, Kok Hwa Brigitte, January 1997 (has links)
Proefschrift : Sociale Wetenschappen : Nijmegen, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.
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