Format:
275 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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23 cm.
ISBN:
9789811441363
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9811441367
Content:
In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine. This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ecocultural lens, looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us. The authors represent a new generation of cultural critics and environmental thinkers, who will inherit the future we are creating today. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, O-levels to orang minyak films, these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, prompting us to recognise the incredible urgency of climate change and the need to transform our ways of thinking, acting, learning, living, and governing so as to maintain a stable planet and a decent future.
Content:
This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ecocultural lens, looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, O-levels to orang minyak films, these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, prompting us to recognise the incredible urgency of climate change and the need to transform our ways of thinking, acting, learning, living and governing so as to maintain a stable planet and a decent future
Note:
Introduction: Seeing Singapore with new eyes / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson -- Eating chilli crab in the Anthropocene: nature, culture and care / Neo Xiaoyun -- Lovable lutrines: curated nature and environmental migrants in the Ottercity / Heeeun Monica Kim -- To build a city-state and erode history: sand the construction of Singapore / Sarah Novak -- Consuming tigers / Ng Xin -- Dumpster diving in Semakau: retrieving indigenous histories from Singapore’s Waste Island / Fu Xiyao -- Feeding the monkeys: towards a multispecies Singapore / Michele Chong -- Javan Mynahs, “invasive” species and belonging in Singapore / Lee Jin Hee -- An oily mirror: 1950s Orang Minyak films as Singaporean petrohorror / Yogesh Tulsi -- Changing course: Jewel Changi and the ethics of aviation / Mathias Ooi -- Singapore on fire: from fossil history to climate activism / Aidan Mock -- Learning the thrive: educating Singapore’s children for a climate-changed world / Al Lim, Feroz Khan -- Another garden city is possible: a plan for a post-carbon Singapore / Bertrand Seah
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Nachhaltigkeit
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Ökologie
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Klimaänderung
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Anthropozän
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