Format:
1 online resource (132 pages)
ISBN:
9789811225734
Series Statement:
Singapore Perspectives
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Singapore, Together -- "DIFFERENCES" -- "WE" -- "TOGETHER" -- CO-CREATION: DESIGNING AND SHAPING OUTCOMES TOGETHER -- CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- SECTION I Paths Taken -- Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 2 The PAP: Past, Present and Future -- ON LEE'S LIEUTENANTS -- DEFYING DUVERGER'S HYPOTHESIS -- BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE -- POSTSCRIPT ON GE2020 -- Chapter 3 Singapore's Opposition: Surprises or More of the Same? -- THREE CONSTANTS -- THREE UNKNOWNS -- POSTSCRIPT -- Chapter 4 Fatalism is Fatal for Small States -- CONTESTS AND STRUGGLES IN THE 1950s AND 1960s -- AGENCY AS A SMALL STATE -- GLOBAL AND LOCAL CHALLENGES -- SECTION II New Forms and Movements -- Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 5 Activism in Singapore in the Digital Age: Influencer Cultures, Meme Factories, and Networked Virality -- THE SINGAPORE CONTEXT -- INFLUENCER CULTURES -- MEME FACTORIES -- NETWORKED VIRALITY -- PITFALLS -- Chapter 6 Lorongs of Wisdom -- CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF MY HOME, GEYLANG -- THE BACKALLEY BARBER: DOING RIGHT BY MY FOREIGN FRIENDS -- SPREADING LOVE TO OTHER HOMES: DAKOTA CRESCENT AND BEYOND -- SEEING THEM AS PEOPLE, NOT STATS -- Chapter 7 Removing Barriers, Excavating Potential from the Underserved -- HELPING "UNHELPABLE" WOMEN -- CORRECTING THE MYTH OF POVERTY BEING ONLY ABOUT DOLLARS AND CENTS -- THE WOMEN OF DOT -- POSTSCRIPT: REFLECTING ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC -- Chapter 8 Creating and Uniting a Climate-Conscious Singapore -- THREE OBSERVATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF CLIMATE MOVEMENT IN SINGAPORE -- TWO EXAMPLES OF HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS AMPLIFYING THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT IN SINGAPORE -- IGNORANCE, CRITICISM AND WORKING TOGETHER -- POST-SCRIPT -- COVID-19 and the evolution of the climate movement in Singapore.
Content:
This book is a collection of speeches presented at Singapore Perspectives 2020 by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat, as well as Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing. It also features speeches and discussions by public intellectuals and civic leaders. Each speaker presents a perspective on their "experience" of politics, both in the traditional sense of elections and governance as well as beyond those formal structures.
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811227684
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811225727
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Singapore perspectives Singapore : World Scientific, 2021 ISBN 9789811227684
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811225727
Language:
English
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Farish A. Noor 1967-
