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Contours of Culture - Space and Social D

by Robbie B. H. Goh
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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9789622097315
  • Binding: Misc
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Original Price: USD 45.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 567 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / China

This volume discusses the urban history and cultural landscape of Singapore in relation to theories of textual dialogics, multiculturalism and the cultural and political unconscious. Multidisciplinary in approach, it takes as its data not only government policy and official discourses, and the more quantitative elements of population census information on religion, income, race and nationality, but also a wide range of related cultural discourses in film, literature, media texts, social behaviour and other interventions and interpretations of the city. The main parameters of Singapore’s socio-national construction - public housing, social elitism, racial and linguistic plurality and their management, colonial remnants and their transformation - are explained and analysed in terms of Singapore’s colonial past, its rapid modernization, and its current push to compete as a global city and tourist destination. This multidisciplinary book should be of interest to a correspondingly wide readership, including architects and urban planners, political scientists, cultural analysts and theorists, colonial discourse scholars, urban geographers and sociologists, Asian studies specialists, graduate and undergraduate students in the above areas, and a general readership interested in cities and cultures.

Robbie Goh is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore. Educated at the National University of Singapore and the University of Chicago, he is the author of Sparks of Grace The Story of Methodism in Asia, the editor (with Brenda S. A. Yeoh) of Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text, the editor (with Shawn Wong) of Asian Diasporas Cultures, Identities, Representations, and the author of numerous articles on urban and Asian cultures, and Anglophone literatures.

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