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Responding to Globalization - Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore (Hardcover)
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Responding to Globalization - Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore (Hardcover)
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Despite unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, little
academic attention has been paid to how governments actively deal
with the challenges globalization poses for national identity. This
book 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. The hallmarks
of Singapore's nation-building project have been the state's
efforts to manage ethnic differences and ensure the economic
well-being of its citizenry. Unlike other global cities which are
embedded in a larger nation-state, Singapore is both a global city
and a nation-state. Singapore embodies a curious contradiction:
while global cities are often theorized as transient spaces,
contradictorily, the nation-state needs to be bounded in order to
remain viable. 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. It
critically explores how the government has been responding to the
challenges of globalization through policy initiatives and official
rhetoric to create a "space" for affective identification with the
Singaporean nation-state and how Singaporeans relate to and
articulate their sense of identity and belonging to Singapore
within the context of globalization.
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