Responding to globalization : nation, culture, and identity in Singapore /
Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity and the shifting ways in which Singapore has been imagined in official discourses. Focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival...
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Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
2007.
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| Series: | Gale virtual reference library
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: globalization and the nation-state
- The making of the Singapore nation-state and the quest for a national identity
- The rhetoric of Asian values and the embracing of a "new Asian" identity
- Creating national citizens for a global city
- Re-branding Singapore: cosmopolitan cultural and urban redevelopment in a global city-state
- At "home" in a globalized city-state?