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- Title
- Responding to globalization : nation, culture and identity in Singapore
- Publisher
- Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Date
- 2007
- Author/Creator
- Velayutham, Selvaraj
- Description
- Focuses on the globalisation nexus in Singapore: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival and the need for a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.
- Description
- Introduction: Globalization and the nation-state -- 1. The making of the Singapore nation-state and the quest for a national identity -- Imagining Singapore: from colony to nationhood -- Developing the Singapore nation: strategies and policies of nation-building -- The question of national identity in the academic literature -- Internationalizing Singapore: nationhood and its connections elsewhere -- 2. The rhetoric of Asian values and the embracing of a "New Asian" identity -- Economy, identity, modernity, ambivalence: for functions of Asian values in Singapore -- 3. Creating national citizens for a global city -- The next lap: building the global city 1991-1997 -- 4. Re-branding Singapore: cosmopolitan cultural and urban redevelopment in a global city-state -- Cosmpolitanizing national culture: recent cultural policy trends in Singapore -- Managing and branding: evaluating Singapore's vision for a cosmopolitan global city -- Nationhood and the dilemmas of the cosmopolitan city-state -- 5. At "home" in a globalized city-state? -- Affect, identity and the nateriality of nation -- The contradictions of Singaporean social modernity -- Managerial speak and governmental forms of belonging -- Singapore and the gift of social life.
- Subject Keyword
- Globalisation, national identity, Singapore, global city, politics and government and cultural policy
- Subject Keyword
- National characteristics, Singaporean
- Subject Keyword
- Values--Singapore
- Subject Keyword
- Social values--Singapore
- Subject Keyword
- Globalization--Social aspects--Singapore
- Subject Keyword
- Globalization--Political aspects--Singapore
- Subject Keyword
- Singapore--Politics and government
- Subject Keyword
- Singapore--Cultural policy
- Resource Type
- book
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/29513
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789812304209
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007003760
- Language
- eng
