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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139861203321

Titolo

Reframing Singapore : memory, identity, trans-regionalism / / edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University  Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612401794

9781282401792

1282401793

9789048508211

9048508215

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

ICAS publication series, Edited volumes ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

HengDerek Thiam Soon

AljuniedSyed Muhd. Khairudin <1976->

Disciplina

301

330

900

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Singapore

Singapore History

Singapore Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318).

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore's Historical Narrative; 3. Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth Century Malay World; 4. Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950's Singapore; 5. The Politics of Fires in Post-1950's Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State

6. Gender and Discipline in 'The Singapore Story': The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c.1997. Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography; 8. Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese; 9. Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity; 10. Trans-National Biographies and



Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong; 11. Indian Media and the Lure of 'Uniquely Singapore'

12. Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers 13. Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance; 14. The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore; About the Authors; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910895996703321

Titolo

Quaderni di diritto ecclesiale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Ancora, 1988-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

262.9/05

Soggetti

Ecclesiastical law - Italy

Ecclesiastical law

Kirchenrecht

Periodicals.

Zeitschrift

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico