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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814022743
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Singapore Shifting Boundaries written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Morokvasic-Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3663095290
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries written by M. Morokvasic-Müller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates as well as unique learning and teaching experiences of the Project Area Migration, the International Women's University. While pointing to historical continuities, it is shown how contemporary ways of bridging time and space are shaped by the new opportunities - or lack of them - related to the process of globalization. This shaping is gendered. Gendering migration paves the way for further intersectional analysis. Vol. I critically examinesmobility, globalization and migration policy from a gender perspective. It includes case studies on internal and international migratory processes inand from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Furthermore it makes an important contribution to the issue of agency and empowerment emerging from migrant women's experience.
Author : Ilse Lenz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3663095274
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries written by Ilse Lenz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy.
Author : Mathews Mathew
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783269553
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Managing Diversity In Singapore: Policies And Prospects written by Mathews Mathew and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies were designed to homogenise aspects of Singaporean society while enshrining principles to allow restricted amounts of diversity. Fast forward to the present, and fifty years after independence, the number of areas where diversity is profoundly apparent remains copious, and its manifestations more varied.This book provides an updated account on the tensions posed by diversity in Singapore and how this is being managed, primarily by the state through policies and programmes but also by communities who attempt to negotiate these tensions. Such an enquiry is crucial especially at this juncture when the nation is finding ways to embrace the different forms of diversity brought about through external impetuses, as well as manage internal reactions from the various communities. The book chapters highlight important considerations if Singapore's diversity management strategies will hold promise for the future.
Author : Kenneth Paul Tan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317224434
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Governing Global-City Singapore written by Kenneth Paul Tan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Secondly, it tracks developments in Singapore’s public administration, critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state ideology. Thirdly, it discusses developments within civil society, focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and feminism, hetero-normativity and gay activism, immigration and migrant worker exploitation, and the contest over history and national narratives in academia, the media and the arts. Fourthly, it discusses the PAP government’s efforts to connect with the public, including its national public engagement exercises that can be interpreted as a subtler approach to social and political control. In increasingly complex conditions, the state struggles to maintain its hegemony while securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan demonstrates how trends in these four areas converge in ways that signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore.
Author : Chan Heng Chee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429832192
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Singapore’s Multiculturalism written by Chan Heng Chee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationality, and Age among its citizens. This approach is a consequence of many factors, including its very distinct ethnic makeup compared with its neighbours, its ambitions as a globally oriented city-state, and its small physical size. Each of these factors and many others have presented Singapore society with a range of challenges and opportunities, and will in all likelihood continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In the writing of this book, the author team set themselves the task of projecting the impact of current domestic and international social trends into the future, to anticipate what Singapore society might look like by around 2040. In doing so, they analyse the particular path that Singapore has taken since independence, in comparison with other multicultural societies and with regard to the balance between the necessity of forging a new national identity after British rule and departure from Malaysia, and the need to ensure that Singapore’s ethnic minority populations remain socially enfranchised. They further consider how current trends may develop over the next couple of decades, what new challenges this may present to Singapore society, and what might be the likely responses to such challenges. In this book, Singapore is a case study of a global city facing the challenges of developed-world modernity in frequently acute ways.
Author : William Siew Wai Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814383864
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Incomplete Urbanism written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Leon van SchaikIncomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices. Its main characteristics are indeterminacy, inconsistency and changeability, which are particularly challenging in the context of the New World Order and the fast emerging global digital network. It is a concept that can be effectively applied to any sizeable section of existing cities without the need for major readjustments and can be implemented at different rates in response to specific local conditions. As for the word ?critical?, I use it deliberately in order to convey the essential need to think creatively and positively in a controversial contesting and social-orientated manner about what we do, as it will constructively influence the way we do things that impact our values and social environment.
Author : Anna Triandafyllidou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031556801
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Migration and Cities written by Anna Triandafyllidou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jiyoung Song
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315527391
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore written by Jiyoung Song and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate Singapore’s fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable economic success while having strict laws on individual freedom in the name of national security, public order and racial harmony. Singapore’s tough stance on human rights, however, does not negate the long and persistent existence of a human rights society that is little known to the world until today. This volume, composed of nine distinctive chapters, records a history of human rights activists, their campaigns, main contentions with the government, survival strategies and other untold stories in Singapore’s first 50 years of state-building.
Author : Abu Talib Ahmad
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896802280
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)
Download or read book New Terrains in Southeast Asian History written by Abu Talib Ahmad and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Southeast Asian scholars may have special insights into their respective countries, but they are just as easily infected by political and didactic functions of their national histories as any historian. The editors (a professor and former professor with the School of Humanities, U. Sains Malaysia) present 15 papers in which Southeast Asian scholars turn a critical eye on their national historiographies. Five of the papers explore broad methodological issues, while others examine particular historiographic traditions from Burma (Myanmar), Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The final group consists of case studies of the application of new methodologies and understandings to particular historical events or periods. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Terence Chong
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813236906
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book State And The Arts In Singapore, The: Policies And Institutions written by Terence Chong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Singapore's key arts policies and art institutions which have shaped the cultural landscape of the country from the 1950s to the present.The scholars and experts in this volume critically assess arts policies and arts institutions to collectively provide an overview of how arts and culture have been deployed by the state. The chapters are arranged chronologically to cover milestone events from the forging of 'Malayan culture'; the government's 'anti-yellow culture' campaign; the use of 'culture' for tourism; the setting up of the Advisory Council on Arts and Culture, the Renaissance City Report, the setting up of the School of the Arts, and others.Putting to rest the notion that Singapore is a 'cultural desert', this volume is valuable reading for students of cultural policy, policy makers who seek an understanding of Singapore's cultural trajectory, and for international readers interested in Singapore's arts and cultural policy.
Author : William Siew Wai Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814578347
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Public Space In Urban Asia written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise profit generation are allowed to construct venues of consumption in its place. Though their physical appearance may resemble traditional public space, in reality, they are greatly restrictive and diminished in affordability, accessibility and social meaning. It is in this context that William SW Lim, chairman of Asian Urban Lab, has brought together architects, designers, historians, sociologists and urbanists from the region to discuss public space in selected Asian cities.Part One contains essays from participants from Chongqing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Taipei and observations from commentators. Several essays by William SW Lim on the subject round off the discussion in Part Two. The thoughtful essays in Public Space in Urban Asia emphasise how engaging with the present actuality of cities and public awareness of spatial justice in cities are crucial — for it is the achievement of spatial justice that will help create a greater level of happiness across societies in our increasingly urbanised world.
Author : Jiyoung Song
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315527405
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore written by Jiyoung Song and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore’s tough stance on human rights, however, does not negate the long and persistent existence of a human rights society that exists almost unknown to the world. The focus of this book is on independent activists and writers, documenting this tradition in Singapore society that has a legacy of defending universal values of individual human rights. It uncovers their discourses, main contentions, campaigns, survival strategies, prominent activists and their untold stories during Singapore’s first 50 years of independence.
Author : Koh Buck Song
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9815009974
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book “One United People”: Essays from the People Sector on Singapore’s Journey of Racial Harmony written by Koh Buck Song and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We, the citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of race, language or religion… Multiculturalism is arguably the X-factor of Singapore’s admired country brand. But while the island republic’s openness to the world is undoubted, its ethnic cohesiveness at home came under scrutiny amidst the stresses of pandemic times. In 2021, the government announced moves to establish new legislation for a Maintenance of Racial Harmony Act. This thought-provoking collection of 23 essays – by writers including Nazry Bahrawi, Viswa Sadasivan, Kenneth Paul Tan, Poh Yong Han and Margaret Thomas – reflects on Singapore’s progress, since independence in 1965, to integrate its component communities into one society and nation. Insights are drawn from diverse perspectives – Malay, Indian, Eurasian, Peranakan, Chinese and others. Lessons from the past are analysed, and the evolving challenges of the present candidly assessed. “One United People” – a quotation from Singapore’s National Pledge – is a timely reminder that racial harmony is never a reachable destination, but an ongoing journey, an aspiration that every citizen and resident can contribute to every day.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Report on the Delineation of Electoral Boundaries and the Creation of Group Representation Constituencies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marco Bünte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317537661
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia written by Marco Bünte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the constitutional landscape of Southeast Asia has changed tremendously. Against a worldwide background of liberalization, globalization, and democratization, states in the region have begun to alter their constitutions, reinforcing human rights provisions, and putting in place institutional safeguards, such as constitutional courts and human rights commissions. On closer examination, however, the picture is very complex, with constitutional developments differing greatly between states. This book explores a range of current constitutional developments in the different states of Southeast Asia through a distinct political lens. Drawing on comparative and single case studies, it considers various constitutional areas, including constitution drafting, human rights, legal safeguards and the continuing role of the military, sets constitutional developments in the wider political and historical context of each country, and makes comparisons both with Western democracies and with other developing regions. The book concludes by assessing overall how far constitutional practices and trajectories are converging towards a liberal Western model or towards a distinctly Southeast Asian model.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251383
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant workers experiences in constraining frames and the options they seize or constraints they circumvent. It traces the development from 19th-century proletarian migrations to industries and plantations across the globe to 20th- and 21st-century domestics and caregiver migrations. It integrates male and female migration and shows how women have always been present in mass migrations. Studies on historical development over time are supplemented by case studies on present migrations in Asia and from Asia. A systems approach is combined with human agency perspectives. Contributors include Rochelle Ball, Shelly Chan, Dennis D. Cordell, Michael Douglass, Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen, Hassène Kassar, Kamel Kateb, Amarjit Kaur, Kiranjit Kaur, Gijs Kessler, Akram Khater, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, Vera Mackie, Adam McKeown, Tomoko Nakamatsu, Ooi Keat Gin, Aswatini Raharto, Marlou Schrover, and Patcharawalai Wongboonsin.
