Incomplete
Incomplete

Author: Alix Beeston

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0520381475

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This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects—abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended—as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars join with film practitioners in approaching the unfinished film as an ideal site for revealing the lived experiences, practical conditions, and institutional realities of women's film production across historical periods and national borders. Incomplete recovers projects and practices marginalized in film industries and scholarship alike, while also showing how feminist filmmakers have cultivated incompletion as an aesthetic strategy. Objects of loss and of possibility, incomplete films raise profound historiographical and ethical questions about the always unfinished project of film history, film spectatorship, and film studies.

The Ruling Elite of Singapore
The Ruling Elite of Singapore

Author: Michael D. Barr

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-01-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0857735764

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Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial institutions of power - including the country's sovereign wealth funds, and the government-linked companies - together with five critical features that form the key to understanding the nature of the networks. He provides an assessment of possible shifts of power within the elite in the wake of Lee Kuan Yew's son, Lee Hsien Loong, assuming power, and considers the possibility of a more fundamental democratic shift in Singapore's political system.

Singapore, Incomplete
Singapore, Incomplete

Author: Cherian George

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789811147791

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"As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election triumph, Cherian George considers the unfinished business of political liberalisation and multicultural integration. Singapore, Incomplete is a collection of personal reflections about the country's underdeveloped political culture and structure. "Ours is a middle-aged country with a maturing economy--but a political system that treats us like children," he argues. George calls for more open "rules of engagement" that will protect and celebrate a diversity of ideas and beliefs. He critiques Singapore's culture of fear, the lack of political transparency, and governmental groupthink." -- from publisher web site.

Incomplete Urbanism
Incomplete Urbanism

Author: William Siew Wai Lim

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9814383872

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Pt. I. Impact of new world order. 1. Global financial turmoil and capital surplus. 2. New power balance. 3. Climatic crisis and sustainability. 4. New knowledge and value change -- pt. II. Incomplete urbanism. 1. Present urban theories. 2. Current urban challenges. 3. Resetting the modernist past. 4. Sustainable cities. 5. A critical urban strategy -- pt. III. Challenges of emerging economies. 1. Multiple modernities and localism. 2. Spatial justice and the city. 3. State capitalism and social justice. 4. Unfolding multi-architectural identities

Incomplete Urbanism
Incomplete Urbanism

Author: William Siew Wai Lim

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9814383864

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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.

Singapore
Singapore

Author: Kenneth Paul Tan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 110858330X

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Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both sets of processes contribute to Singapore's capacity to influence foreign affairs, if only for national self-preservation. For a small state with resource limitations, this is mainly through the exercise of smart power, or the ability to strategically combine soft and hard power resources.

Commentary On Singapore, Volume 1: Foreign Policy, Governance And Leadership
Commentary On Singapore, Volume 1: Foreign Policy, Governance And Leadership

Author: Gillian Koh

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9811264562

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Thought-leaders contributing to this volume include Tommy Koh, Tan Tai Yong, Kishore Mahbubani, Bilahari Kausikan, Han Fook Kwang, and more!This volume comprises essays by Singapore thought-leaders republished from various issues of Commentary, the annual journal of the National University of Singapore Society.In the first section, chapters have been curated to provide historical context and analyses of Singapore's foreign policy. The second section presents views on the orientation, values and interests the new, fourth generation of national leaders might have to adopt as they address the emerging challenges in this policy domain so critical to the city-state's survival.These highly accessible essays provide the general reader valuable grounding and frameworks for thinking about Singapore's approach in navigating the geopolitical shifts in its Asian neighbourhood.

Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore Politics
Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore Politics

Author: Cherian George

Publisher: Ethos Books

Published: 2023-04-27

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9811449848

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"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual autonomy, and at the risk of unsustainability." Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000), on the country's politics of comfort and control, and from Singapore, Incomplete (2017), on its underdeveloped democracy. Updated for the impending transition to a new generation of leaders, this 20th anniversary edition of Air-Conditioned Nation offers critical reflections on continuity and change in Singapore’s unique political culture.

East and Southeast Asia 2023–2024
East and Southeast Asia 2023–2024

Author: James E. Hoare

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-07-20

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1538176092

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The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia provides historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional chapters are followed by sections on each country in the region. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors, and students to understand the immediate background of contemporary developments.