Responding to globalization: nation, culture and identity in Singapore
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
xi
INTRODUCTION: Globalization and the Nation-State
1
Background
3
Dealing with Globalization
5
State Legitimacy and Control
10
Outline of Book
13
1.
The Making of the Singapore Nation-State and the
Quest for a National Identity
20
Imagining Singapore: From Colony to Nationhood
21
Developing the Singapore Nation: Strategies and Policies
of Nation-Building
26
The Question of National Identity in the Academic Literature
36
Internationalizing Singapore: Nationhood and Its
Connections Elsewhere
41
Conclusion
46
2.
The Rhetoric of Asian Values and the Embracing of a
"New Asian" Identity
52
Introduction
52
Family, Community, Order: The Discourse of Asian Values
54
Asian Values in the Singapore Context
56
Safe, Clean, Controlled: Characterizing the Commentary
on Asian Values
58
Economy, Identity, Modernity, Ambivalence: Four Functions
of Asian Values in Singapore
61
Asian, Western or New Asian: Relabelling and Re-sorting
Our Boxes
73
Conclusion
76
3.
Creating National Citizens for a Global City
82
Introduction
82
A City in Transition
83
The Next Lap: Building the Global City
1991-1997 85
Singaporeans Emigrating
93
Singapore
21
Solutions: From Next Lap to "Heartware"
97
Putting Singapore
21
into Practice
101
Unhomely Anxieties, Global City Dilemmas
102
Analysing the Singapore
21
"Heartware" Solutions:
Strategies to Create More Homely Citizens
106
The Usefulness of "Folk": Appropriating Singapore's
Heartlanders
107
Synthetic Homeliness and the Logic of National
Development in Singapore
109
Conclusion
112
4.
Re-Branding Singapore: Cosmopolitan Cultural and
Urban Redevelopment in a Global City-State
119
Introduction
119
Culture and the State
121
Domesticating Singaporeans and Attracting Talents
from Overseas
124
Cosmopolitanizing National Culture: Recent Cultural
Policy Trends in Singapore
128
Speaking Proper English
133
Managing and Branding: Evaluating Singapore's Vision
for a Cosmopolitan Global City
135
Nationhood and the Dilemmas of the Cosmopolitan
City-State
148
5.
At "Home" in a Globalized
City-State?
159
Introduction
159
Singaporean and Related Identities
162
Being Singaporean in a Global City
166
Affect, Identity and the Materiality of Nation
169
The Contradictions of Singaporean Social Modernity
176
Managerial Speak and Governmental Forms of Belonging
181
Singapore and the Gift of Social Life
190
Conclusion
195
CONCLUSION
202
From a Barren Piece of Land to a Thriving Global City
202
Global City/Nation
203
The Nation-State in the Global Context
204
The Uncertainty and Hopefulness that is Singapore
208
Bibliography
211
Index
233
About the Author
239 |
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
xi
INTRODUCTION: Globalization and the Nation-State
1
Background
3
Dealing with Globalization
5
State Legitimacy and Control
10
Outline of Book
13
1.
The Making of the Singapore Nation-State and the
Quest for a National Identity
20
Imagining Singapore: From Colony to Nationhood
21
Developing the Singapore Nation: Strategies and Policies
of Nation-Building
26
The Question of National Identity in the Academic Literature
36
Internationalizing Singapore: Nationhood and Its
Connections Elsewhere
41
Conclusion
46
2.
The Rhetoric of Asian Values and the Embracing of a
"New Asian" Identity
52
Introduction
52
Family, Community, Order: The Discourse of Asian Values
54
Asian Values in the Singapore Context
56
Safe, Clean, Controlled: Characterizing the Commentary
on Asian Values
58
Economy, Identity, Modernity, Ambivalence: Four Functions
of Asian Values in Singapore
61
Asian, Western or New Asian: Relabelling and Re-sorting
Our Boxes
73
Conclusion
76
3.
Creating National Citizens for a Global City
82
Introduction
82
A City in Transition
83
The Next Lap: Building the Global City
1991-1997 85
Singaporeans Emigrating
93
Singapore
21
Solutions: From Next Lap to "Heartware"
97
Putting Singapore
21
into Practice
101
Unhomely Anxieties, Global City Dilemmas
102
Analysing the Singapore
21
"Heartware" Solutions:
Strategies to Create More Homely Citizens
106
The Usefulness of "Folk": Appropriating Singapore's
Heartlanders
107
Synthetic Homeliness and the Logic of National
Development in Singapore
109
Conclusion
112
4.
Re-Branding Singapore: Cosmopolitan Cultural and
Urban Redevelopment in a Global City-State
119
Introduction
119
Culture and the State
121
Domesticating Singaporeans and Attracting Talents
from Overseas
124
Cosmopolitanizing National Culture: Recent Cultural
Policy Trends in Singapore
128
Speaking Proper English
133
Managing and Branding: Evaluating Singapore's Vision
for a Cosmopolitan Global City
135
Nationhood and the Dilemmas of the Cosmopolitan
City-State
148
5.
At "Home" in a Globalized
City-State?
159
Introduction
159
Singaporean and Related Identities
162
Being Singaporean in a Global City
166
Affect, Identity and the Materiality of Nation
169
The Contradictions of Singaporean Social Modernity
176
Managerial Speak and Governmental Forms of Belonging
181
Singapore and the Gift of Social Life
190
Conclusion
195
CONCLUSION
202
From a Barren Piece of Land to a Thriving Global City
202
Global City/Nation
203
The Nation-State in the Global Context
204
The Uncertainty and Hopefulness that is Singapore
208
Bibliography
211
Index
233
About the Author
239 |
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