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Contested Memoryscapes - The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (Paperback)
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Contested Memoryscapes - The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (Paperback)
Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity
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This book sets itself apart from much of the burgeoning literature
on war commemoration within human geography and the social sciences
more generally by analysing how the Second World War (1941-45) is
remembered within Singapore, unique for its potential to shed light
on the manifold politics associated with the commemoration of wars
not only within an Asian, but also a multiracial and
multi-religious postcolonial context. By adopting a historical
materialist approach, it traces the genealogy of war commemoration
in Singapore, from the initial disavowal of the war by the
postcolonial government since independence in 1965 to it being
embraced as part of national historiography in the early 1990s
apparent in the emergence since then of various memoryscapes
dedicated to the event. Also, through a critical analysis of a wide
selection of these memoryscapes, the book interrogates how memories
of the war have been spatially and discursively appropriated today
by state (and non-state) agencies as a means of achieving multiple
objectives, including (but not limited to) commemoration, tourism,
mourning and nation-building. And finally, the book examines the
perspectives of those who engage with or use these memoryscapes in
order to reveal their contested nature as fractured by social
divisions of race, gender, ideology and nationality. The
substantive book chapters will be based on archival and empirical
data drawn from case studies in Singapore themed along different
conceptual lenses including ethnicity; gender; postcoloniality,
tourism and postmodernity; personal mourning; transnational
remembrances and politics; and the preservation of original sites,
stories and artefacts of war. Collectively, they speak to and work
towards shedding insights to the one overarching question: 'How is
the Second World War commemorated in postcolonial Singapore and
what are some of the issues, politics and contestations which have
accompanied these efforts to presence the war today, particularly
as they are spatially and materially played out via different types
of memoryscapes?' The book also distinguishes itself from previous
works written on war commemoration in Singapore, mainly by social
and military historians, particularly through its adoption of a
geographical agenda that gives attention to issues of politics of
space as it relates to remembrance and representations of memory.
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