Lily (Hrsg.) Kong

The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of nation

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This thought-provoking book explores strategies employed by Singapore, a multiracial society, to create a Singapore nation with an emphasis on the role of landscape. As such, the authors cast a keen eye on religious buildings, public housing, heritage landscapes, and street name changes as tangible methods of nation-building in a postcolonial society. The authors illustrate how nation and national identity are concepts that are negotiated and disputed by varied social, economic, and political groups--some of which may actively resist powerful state-centrist attitudes. Throughout this work, the role of the landscape prevails both as a way to n… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8156-2980-1
EAN: 9780815629801
Produktnummer: 9799837
Verlag: Syracuse Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.4 cm 363 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 363

Über den Autor

Lily Kong is associate professor in the Department of Geography and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Among numerous publications, she coauthored Singapore: A Developmental City-State and coedited Globalization and The Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories. Brenda S. A. Yeoh is associate professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. She is the coauthor of Singapore: A Developmental City-State, co-editor of Gender and Migration and author of Community and Change: The Tanjong Pagar Community Club Story.