Yonfan’s Bugis Street
Yonfan’s Bugis Street

Author: Kenneth Chan

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9888208764

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Bugis Street was famous (or notorious) for being a haunt of transgender prostitution in the early decades of postcolonial Singapore. Since then the site has been a source of touristic obsession and local cultural anxiety. In his 1995 film Bugis Street, director Yonfan brings the short lane back to vivid cinematic life. By focusing on the film's representations of queer sexualities and transgender experience, this book contends that the under-appreciated Bugis Street is a significant instance of queer transnational cinema. The film's playful yet nuanced articulations of queer embodiment, spatiality, and temporality provide an unexpected intervention in the public discourses on LGBT politics, activism, and cultures in Singapore today. This book's arrival at a much more complicated and contradictory picture of the discursive Bugis Street, through the examination of Yonfan's film and a range of other cultural and literary texts, adds a new critical dimension to the ongoing historical, geographical, sociological, ethnographic, and artistic analyses of this controversial space.

Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics
Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics

Author: Victor R. Savage

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2022-10-15

Total Pages: 1180

ISBN-13: 9815009230

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Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image, The study of place names called toponymics unlocks the stories that are in every street name and landmark. In Singapore, the existence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonization, immigration and nationalism has given rise to a complex history of place names. But how did these places get their names? This revised and expanded 4th edition of the book incorporates additional information, from archival research as well as interviews that have come to light since the last edition. Also included are many new entries that have presented themselves as Singapore’s built environment undergoes redevelopment. Expanded by over 100 pages.

Responding to Globalization
Responding to Globalization

Author: Selvaraj Velayutham

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9812304215

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Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.

Law and the City
Law and the City

Author: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1135308926

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Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective. An invaluable 'guide' to adopting a different approach to the city and its history, culture and everyday experience, Law and the City is not simply an exploration of the relationship between these two spheres. It details: a flourishing of law’s spatiality and urban legal locality an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the city’s legal dreams, of both the ‘urban law’ and the ‘juridical polis’. Enlightening and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers.

Social Cultural Engineering and the Singaporean State
Social Cultural Engineering and the Singaporean State

Author: Khun Eng Kuah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 9811069719

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This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering. It deals with the relationship between the Singaporean state and local agencies and how the latter negotiated with the state to establish an acceptable framework for social cultural engineering to proceed. The book also highlights the tensions and conflicts that occurred during this process. The various chapters examine how the Singaporean state used polices and regulatory control to conserve and maintain ethno-cultural and ethno-religious landscapes, develop a moral education system and how the treatment of women and its morality came into alignment with the values that the state espoused upon from the 1980s through the 1990s.

Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman's Face To Change In Singapore
Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman's Face To Change In Singapore

Author: Kanwaljit Soin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9814641995

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Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years; how women, from all sectors of society, have helped to shape the Singapore we know today. The 31 chapters, some with a more academic slant, others with a distinctly personal tone, reflect the rich diversity and depth of women's contributions to Singapore's evolution in the last half century, and also point to the problematical areas that still need attention.The perspectives in this book are provided by three generations of women, and they put a human face — the woman's face — to the tremendous changes in Singapore society over the past 50 years. The authors include some of Singapore's most accomplished women in many different fields — Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob, political scientist and diplomat Chan Heng Chee, global women's activist Noeleen Heyzer, sociologist and politician Aline Wong, food ambassador Violet Oon, sports legend Pat Chan, law lecturer and playwright Eleanor Wong, and novelist Meira Chand.

Women and Chinese Patriarchy
Women and Chinese Patriarchy

Author: Maria Jaschok

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781856491266

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This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard.

Wikitravel Singapore
Wikitravel Singapore

Author: Jani Patokallio

Publisher: Wikitravel Press

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1440467218

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Wikitravel Singapore has comprehensive coverage of Singapore's culinary delights, up-to-date info on Singapore's nightlife, ten handy city maps with attractions marked and features a detailed three-day sample itinerary. Built by fellow travelers with content from the award-winning Wikitravel website, the guidebook is revised from top to bottom every month by our editorial team, so you always have the latest information.

The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei

Author: Charles de Ledesma

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 789

ISBN-13: 1405385073

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The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei is the ultimate travel guide to these three exciting Southeast Asian destinations. Discover this dynamic region; from the turquoise beaches of Thailand, spectacular Gunung Mulu National Park, Mount Kinabalu, historic temples and the Perhentian Islands, to amazing Singaporean cuisine and lively nightlife. Packed with detailed, practical advice, this guide provides up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei and recommended restaurants, shopping and festivals, for all budgets. Fully updated and expanded, coverage includes Taman Negara, Penang and Singapore, and magnificent Ulu Muda Forest Reserve. You’ll find expert background on Malaysian, Singaporean and Brunei history, with full colour features exploring Malay culture and Borneo’s longhouse architecture. Explore all corners of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei with the clearest maps of any guide and practical language tips. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Queer Singapore
Queer Singapore

Author: Audrey Yue

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9888139339

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Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore's current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of sexual repression and cultural liberalisation. Using the innovative framework of illiberal pragmatism, established and emergent local scholars and activists provide expansive coverage of the impact of homosexuality on Singapore's media cultures and political economy, including law, religion, the military, literature, theatre, photography, cinema, social media and queer commerce. It shows how new LGBT subjectivities have been fashioned through the governance of illiberal pragmatism, how pragmatism is appropriated as a form of social and critical democratic action, and how cultural citizenship is forged through a logic of queer complicity that complicates the flows of oppositional resistance and grassroots appropriation.