Journal articles: 'Political culture – Singapore'

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Lim, Alwyn. "The Culture of Technology of Singapore." Asian Journal of Social Science 30, no. 2 (2002): 271–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853102320405852.

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The objective of this paper is to map the sociological context in which the cultural economy of technology of Singapore exists. Taking a socio-historical perspective, this paper argues that the development of Singapore as a technological 'intelligent island' must take centre stage in relation to the sociological analysis of modern Singapore's political, economic, and socio-cultural structure. This involves a critique of theories of the information society and empirical research on East Asian developmental states. The aim is to chart the development of technology in Singapore, from its founding as a colonial port-city to its current status as an 'intelligent island', and to situate this development in its social context. In addressing the issue of the global expansion of localized technological knowledge hubs, I argue that while these technological 'hubs' are increasingly linked in complex political, economic and social networks, one must also account for the developmental trajectory of each particular 'hub' and to explain the socio-cultural complex of societies, which promote themselves as such. This paper intends to demonstrate how this construction of a technological nation state is neither a context-free project nor one that is free of complex historical antagonisms and contradictions.

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Maysami, Ramin Cooper, and Christopher Ziemnowicz. "Ethnicity, Gender and Entrepreneurial Tendencies: The Singapore Perspective." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 25 (February 5, 2008): 74–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v25i0.1430.

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Abstract Creativity and risk-taking, widely accepted prerequisites for successful entrepreneurial behavior, were absent for a long time from Singaporean culture, where people were accustomed to well paying and readily available jobs in the public sector. As a result of the economic slowdown of the late 1990s, promoting entrepreneurial activities became a priority of the Singapore government. This study analyzes the entrepreneurial characteristics of Singapore's multi-racial and multi-cultural society, and attempts to find if there are any reasons as to why some people are more readily willing to engage in entrepreneurial behavior, based on factors such as race, gender, and culture. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, culture, innovation, risk propensity, Singapore

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Lee, Terence. "Towards a 'New Equilibrium': The Economics and Politics of the Creative Industries in Singapore." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 24, no. 2 (April 10, 2006): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v24i2.816.

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On 26 September 2002, as Singapore faced up to its worst economic year since attaining full political independence in 1965, the Creative Industries Working Group (CIWG) of the Economic Review Committee (ERC), a governmentappointed, high-level body tasked with identifying future economic growth sectors and opportunities for Singapore, unveiled its report entitled Creative Industries Development Strategy: Propelling Singapore's Creative Economy (CIWG, 2002). This was the first time the voguish concept of the 'creative industries' had been publicly acknowledged and embraced in Singapore. It is believed that the development of a 'creative cluster' – or a creative network comprising the arts and cultural sector, the design sector and the media industry – would propel Singapore's new innovation-driven economy by 'industrializing' the cultural (and culture-related) sectors in Singapore. Among other envisaged outcomes, this policy aims to encourage risk-taking and entrepreneurship and to attract creative 'talents' to locate in Singapore. Whilst the notion of the 'creative industries' has been objectively modelled after global trends and policies, its application in a society notorious for its censorious political and cultural climate is fraught with problems. This article offers a critical examination of this new creative industries policy direction spearheaded by the Singapore government, and considers the economics and politics of creativity in what is being presented as the 'new' Singapore of the twenty-first century.

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Rocha, Zarine L. "Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore." Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 30, no. 3 (September 2011): 95–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810341103000304.

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“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have developed over time, used as a tool for the state, and re-emerging in discourses of hybridity and “double-barrelled” racial identifications. Multiracialism, as a maintained structural feature of Singaporean society, is both challenged and reinforced by new understandings of hybridity and older conceptions of what it means to be “mixed race” in a (post-)colonial society. Tracing the temporal thread of racial categorization through a lens of mixedness, this article places the Singaporean case within emerging work on hybridity and recognition of “mixed race”. It illustrates how state-led understandings of race and “mixed race” describe processes of both continuity and change, with far-reaching practical and ideological impacts.

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Tan, Kenneth Paul. "Service Learning Outside the U.S.: Initial Experiences in Singapore's Higher Education." PS: Political Science & Politics 42, no. 03 (June 26, 2009): 549–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s104909650909088x.

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ABSTRACTService learning in higher education is an American creature. But outside the U.S., practices that resemble American service learning or that have begun self-consciously to describe themselves as “service learning” may also be found. This article gives an account of a proto-service-learning course on civil society in Singapore and discusses some similarities and differences between the U.S. and Singapore contexts in which the practices of service learning have evolved, identifying how this civil society course in particular was both a product of as well as a challenge to Singapore's somewhat different priorities in higher education, political culture, and attitudes to social justice and cultural diversity.

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Heng, Derek. "Regional influences, economic adaptation and cultural articulation: Diversity and cosmopolitanism in fourteenth-century Singapore." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 50, no. 4 (December 2019): 476–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463420000016.

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Studies on the international history of fourteenth-century Singapore have been hitherto limited to external trade conducted by local inhabitants, and material consumption patterns that this trade enabled them to develop. Broader regional cultural influences have been postulated though not clearly demonstrated, given scant textual records and limited material culture remains. This article seeks to examine the external influences, adaptation and assimilation in the production and consumption of fourteenth-century Singapore. In particular, it looks at three aspects of Singapore's pre-colonial existence — modes of economic production, patterns of consumption of international products, and the articulation of high culture vis-à-vis external entities. By examining available archaeological, epigraphic, art historical and cartographic data from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries, this article postulates how distinct consumption patterns may have developed among different riverside populations living north of the Singapore River. This study also questions the common view that Singapore developed as a cosmopolitan port-city only after the advent of British colonialism, demonstrating that its diversity and openness was likely a feature centuries before.

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Lim, William S. W. "Development and Culture in Singapore and Beyond." Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 14, no. 1 (April 1999): 249–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj14-1k.

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Lam (林立), Lap. "Poetic Record of Local Customs: Bamboo Branch Verses of Singapore (1888–1941)." Journal of Chinese Overseas 15, no. 1 (April 10, 2019): 5–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341391.

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Abstract During the colonial period, Chinese poets in Singapore frequently adopted the short poetic genre called “Bamboo Branch Verse” to depict local customs, cultures, and their diasporic experiences. This genre has a folksong origin, and is traditionally used by literati writers to describe local folkways and secular love in exotic places. Li Qingnian’s Nanyang zhuzhici huibian shows that no fewer than 4,197 pieces were published in Malaya and Singapore from 1888 to 1950. Based on Li’s compilation yet adopting a more critical approach in handling his source materials, this article studies the content and generic style of Singapore’s zhuzhici and its relation to local society, from 1888, the year the first set of zhuzhici poems was published, to 1941, before Singapore was occupied by the Japanese army. It first reviews the tradition of zhuzhici writing and attempt to clarify its generic distinctiveness, so as to link the zhuzhici in Singapore with its origin and to point out what is new and unchanged. Second, it examines how writers used the miniature form of zhuzhici for social criticism and to respond to the colorful, complex Nanyang cultures. Finally, it focuses on Khoo Seok Wan’s poems to explicate the relationship between zhuzhici and print culture, his attitude toward local customs, and how he applied local languages, cyclic form, and explanatory notes in the genre.

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KLUVER, RANDOLPH. "Political Culture and Information Technology in the 2001 Singapore General Election." Political Communication 21, no. 4 (October 1, 2004): 435–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584600490518333.

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Low, Felicia. "Autogenous culture as political form: explorations through participatory art in Singapore." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 56–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2019.1576397.

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Abdullah, Walid Jumblatt, and Soojin Kim. "Singapore’s Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Critical Assessment." American Review of Public Administration 50, no. 6-7 (July 15, 2020): 770–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020942454.

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This article reviews how Singapore has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, from late-January to early May, 2020, through the three-phase approach to “learning”: in-between learning, trial-and-error learning, and contingency learning. Given its unique political system dominated by the People’s Action Party (PAP) and bureaucratic culture, the Singapore government has progressively implemented numerous control measures including strict travel bans, contact tracing, “Circuit Breaker,” compulsory mask-wearing, and social distancing policies, along with financial relief to businesses and workers, in a very top-down fashion. Although the health and treatment issues of foreign migrant workers in dormitories continue to be the subject of ongoing debate among many scholars, it should be noted that the mortality rate in Singapore still remains very low compared to that of many other countries. Singapore’s case points to an important lesson that learning-driven coordinated strategic approaches matter for effective crisis management in the long term.

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DAHLES, HEIDI. "ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE LEGACIES OF A DEVELOPMENTAL STATE: SINGAPORE ENTERPRISES VENTURING ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13, no. 04 (December 2008): 485–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946708001095.

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This article aims at contributing to a more profound understanding of the relationship between the developmental state and private entrepreneurial activity, in particular the internationalization of business ventures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Singapore, this article attempts to identify the role of the Singapore developmental state in orchestrating the strategies of domestic firms establishing themselves in foreign markets. From the 1960s, the Singapore government has neglected small domestic firms — its legacy of the colonial past — for diverse economic and political reasons. Initially offsetting the influence of Western culture through the establishment of foreign companies, the government changed its tune, harnessing 'Asian' values and institutional norms to facilitate ventures into China. Altering between different legacies created ambivalence and shifting coalitions with foreign economies. Striking divergence from government directives has been found in the ways in which Singaporean firms go about when venturing across borders and, in particular, when drawing on the city state's legacies to give their ventures legitimacy and meaning. This divergence raises questions about the role of the Singapore state as the paragon of institutional legacy for its domestic businesses.

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Bhasin, Balbir, and Lee Keng Ng. "Transforming Culture to Stimulate Economic Development." International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies 5, no. 1 (January 2016): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2016010104.

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In furthering the discussion on the linkage between economic development and culture, this paper attempts to answer the question: “Can a society's culture be transformed to stimulate economic development?” This paper uses Singapore as a case study. It traces the country's restructuring of cultural values to foster economic growth and development which allowed Singapore to grow from a small island state with a sagging economy and no natural resources, to become one of the most respected and widely recognized developmental models of the modern era. This study shows that social controls can help newly developing countries in creating political stability and social cohesion that allows for rapid economic development. However, the negative effects of such measures lead to the creation of a compliant society that lacks creativity and innovation, is risk averse in entrepreneurial activity, and prone to talent depletion.

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Khiun, Liew Kai. "Labour Formation, Identity, and Resistance in HM Dockyard, Singapore (1921–1971)." International Review of Social History 51, no. 3 (November 1, 2006): 415–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859006002549.

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For close on half a century, the British naval dockyard in Singapore was a prominent employer in the colony. The huge facility attracted migrant workers from the region, and entire settlements and communities were established around the premises of the dockyard as well. This article seeks to place the legacy of Singapore's naval-base workers within the historical contexts of the entanglements between imperialism, diaspora, social movements, and labour resistance. The development of international labour flows, formation, and identity was reflected in the prominence of the migrant Malayalee community and its socio-religious organizations at the naval base. Furthermore, the routine individual defiance and industrial unrest went beyond disputes about wage levels and working conditions. They were enmeshed within the broader undercurrents of Singapore's transitory political culture, and between the interwar decades and the period of decolonization disturbances at the naval dockyard became part of larger political contestations.

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Paul Tan, Kenneth. "Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess." Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 23, no. 2 (October 30, 2008): 283–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj23-2f.

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Kenley, David. "New Culture Turns One Hundred: A Centennial Reflection on the May Fourth and New Culture Movement in Singapore." Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives 16, no. 1 (April 7, 2022): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24522015-16010003.

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Abstract Centennial commemorations of the May Fourth Movement in Singapore demonstrate how practices of remembrance reinforce but also transcend national and cultural boundaries. Throughout 2019, Singaporeans reflected on the iconoclastic, anti-imperialist, and pro-democracy elements of May Fourth while simultaneously challenging public memories as observed in China. As such, these commemorations shed important light on memory studies, postcoloniality, and Singapore Chinese identity.

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Tupas, Ruanni. "Pragmatism, Mandarin and political culture in Singapore: recent reprises of an ideology." Journal of World Languages 2, no. 2-3 (September 2, 2015): 94–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21698252.2016.1183269.

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Chen, Jianlin. "Singapore's Culture War over Section 377A: Through the Lens of Public Choice and Multilingual Research." Law & Social Inquiry 38, no. 01 (2013): 106–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2012.01297.x.

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The 2007 debate over the retention of Singapore's male sodomy law provision set off a vigorous and passionate public debate reminiscent of the US culture war. However, the Singapore government's final decision reflects an interesting compromise. The law was retained, but its moral content was severely curtailed. This article critically examines this episode and explores the political dynamics driving the compromise. Enriching public choice theory on interest group capture, this article argues that the ruling party's political dominance coupled with limited but real political competition is surprisingly effective in aligning the government's position with the preference of the majority despite concerted pressure from well-mobilized minority interest groups. Current legal scholarly work on this debate has focused on the “vigorous debate” in the English-language forums. In this article, the examination of the contemporaneous discourse in Chinese and Malay newspapers enables a more accurate and comprehensive appreciation of this culture war episode.

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Rahmat, Hadijah. "In Search for Canon of Singapore Malay Poetry: Reflection on Nature, Race, Religion and Love." Malay Literature 26, no. 1 (June 8, 2013): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37052/ml.26(1)no1.

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This paper discusses selected poems by three generations of Malay writers in Singapore from the first generation poets who received their vernicular education during British colonial period, before Malayan Independence in 1957; to second generation writers who received Malay education when Singapore was part of Malaysia, 1957-1965 who established their poems in 1970s; and the third generation writers who received bilingual education who began to make impacts when Singapore become a Republic in 1980s. These iconic poems embody the easthetic as well as the cultural and political values of Malay society. It is an early attempt to define and search for canon of Singapore Malay poetry. Keywords: literature, canon, poetry, Singapore, culture, identity, values

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Rappa, Antonio L. "Surviving the Politics of Late Modernity: The Eurasian Fringe Community of Singapore1." Asian Journal of Social Science 28, no. 2 (2000): 153–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/030382400x00091.

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AbstractThis paper locates the Eurasian community's reconciliatory politics in an age marked by a proclivity for primordial purity within complex political, social and economic sub-systems. The word "Eurasian" has both old and new connotations; "old" because of primordial accents of physically "observable" biological mixture, and "difference"; and "new" because of cultural origins in the early to mid-sixteenth century. This paper concentrates on Eurasians in Singapore after 1945. Eurasians are the architects, objects, and subjects of a hybrid culture, a momentary reminder of a formerly powerful colonial presence in Southeast Asia. Since the early sixteenth century Eurasians have been transformed by the impact of at least three different phases of Western colonialism, and since 1955, two ongoing phases of internal colonialism by a predominantly Malay state in Malay[si]a, and a migrant, Chinese-dominated State in Singapore. Eurasians in Malaysia and Singapore survive as a fringe community: a politically, and demographically marginal community that has existed and continues to exist on the fringe of the modern Malay world, subjected through the years to the state policies of the Portuguese, Dutch, British, Malay, and Singapore governments, yet managing to preserve their culture of "Eurasianess" through a strategy of reconciliatory politics in late modernity.

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Bernards, Brian. "Iridescent Corners." Prism 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 374–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966697.

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Abstract Starting in the 1970s, flash fiction developed into an outsized literary practice relative to other Sinophone forms in Singapore. Flash fiction's smallness and brevity cohere with the fast pace of urban Singaporean life and transformation of its cityscape, the compartmentalized relationship between the nation's four official languages, the marginality of literary spaces and challenges to maintaining literature as a profession, and Southeast Asia's relative obscurity as a world literary center (with Singapore as a small but important connective hub). Taking Yeng Pway Ngon's fleeting scene of Speakers' Corner (a flash platform of “gestural politics”) as a point of departure, this article charts a short history of Sinophone flash and its relationship to literary community building in Singapore through integrative readings of representative works by Jun Yinglü, Ai Yu, Wong Meng Voon, Xi Ni Er, and Wu Yeow Chong, recognizing their formal and thematic intersections not as “big ideas in tiny spaces” but as iridescent corners that traverse the state's cultural, political, and geographical out-of-bounds (OB) markers. Rather than privileging professional mastery, their works trace flash fiction's iridescent literariness and worldliness to hyperlocality (the physical and literary “corners” they illuminate), compressed temporality, a participatory culture of authorship, and a spirit of amateurism. This amateurism is derived not from a sense of linguistic underdevelopment or technical lack among these authors, but from their passionate and vulnerable engagement with the flash form, as well as the dissident moral conscience of their thematically and stylistically intersecting critiques of Singapore's sociopolitical OB markers.

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GORDON, IAN. "Singapore. Life is not complete without shopping: Consumption culture in Singapore. By CHUA BENG HUAT. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. Pp. 209. Index." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37, no. 1 (February 2006): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463405540475.

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Ooi, Can-Seng. "The Changing Role of Tourism Policy in Singapore's Cultural Development: From Explicit to Insidious." Tourism Culture & Communication 19, no. 4 (November 27, 2019): 231–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/194341419x15542140077648.

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In the last three decades, Singapore has transformed from a cultural desert to a global arts city, thanks significantly to tourism. The Singapore Tourism Board was proactively shaping the cultural dynamics and policy of Singapore until 2012. But since then its official role in the country's arts and cultural development almost disappeared. The disappearance of tourism interests in cultural development stems apparently from years of resistance, dialogues, and negotiation. This study argues that the tourism authorities are still maintaining influence in the cultural dynamics and development of Singapore by reframing its involvement. It insidiously asserts its influence by enticing members of the arts community with resources, opportunities, and economic support to participate in the tourism industry. This article provides a dialogical understanding of how tourism has shaped Singapore's cultural dynamics. Cultural dynamics and tourism development in Singapore must be understood within economic and social engineering perimeters defined by the government. The tourism authorities do not only work with other government authorities, they use similar techniques in managing and controlling cultural development in the city-state. The Bakhtinian Dialogic Imagination is the heuristic that organizes and structures the complex and dynamic tourism–culture relations in this study. Three dialogical concepts—carnivalesque, heteroglossia, and polyphony—are used. Besides documenting the ongoing evolution of tourism in the cultural development of Singapore, this study questions the effectiveness of the arm's length approach to managing cultural development. The Singapore case shows that there are subtle economic and political ways to go round that principle.

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Tan, Eugene K. B. "Re-engaging Chineseness: Political, Economic and Cultural Imperatives of Nation-building in Singapore." China Quarterly 175 (September 2003): 751–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741003000432.

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This article examines the management of Chinese identity and culture since Singapore attained independence in 1965. Due to the delicate regional environment, ethnic Chinese identity has been closely managed by the ruling elites, which have been dominated by the English-educated Chinese. There is the evolution from a deliberate policy of maintaining a low-key ethnic Chinese profile to the recent effort to re-sinicize – in form – the majority ethnic group. The article examines the policy impulses and implications for such a landmark change in reconceptualizing the Chinese-Singapore identity, which can be attributed to the needs of regime maintenance buttressed by Confucian ethos as well as the security and economic demands of nation-building.

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Siu-lun, Wong. "Modernization and Chinese Culture in Hong Kong." China Quarterly 106 (June 1986): 306–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000038595.

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Hong Kong, by now, is quite modern. At the same time, it remains essentially Chinese. Measured by most accepted indicators, Hong Kong qualifies as a newly industrialized region. It is using so much inanimate power to drive machines that the increase in fuel consumption is no longer proportionate to the increase in population size. It has joined the ranks of the “ecological phase 4 societies” in which the livelihood of the inhabitants is dependent on “extrasomatic energy”. As it began its transition in the pattern of energy usage much later, Hong Kong is still well behind western industrial nations in per capita energy consumption. But in Asia, in 1981, it had the third highest per capita use of commercial energy after Japan and Singapore, which stood at 1,487 kilograms of coal equivalent. Between 1960 and 1979 its average annual growth rate in energy consumption was about 10 per cent, a rate higher than those of all the industrial economies and most Asian countries except Singapore and the Republic of Korea. Hong Kong's productivity is high, ranking third in Asia after Japan and Singapore with a Gross National Product (GNP) per capita that grew at the annual rate of 6 8 per cent. By 1980 its GNP per capita reached US$4,240.5 In terms of employment, in 1981, 49 per cent of its labour force was engaged in manufacturing and construction, 47 per cent in commerce and various lines of services, and just 2 per cent in agriculture. The inhabitants of Hong Kong are keen participants in the mass media.

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Ho, Debbie G. E. "‘I'm not west. I'm not east. So how leh?’." English Today 22, no. 3 (July 2006): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026607840600304x.

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WHILE recent articles and research studies on Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or simply ‘Singlish’) have so far tended to focus on the structure, grammar and the functional roles of Singlish in Singapore, this paper presents an insider's viewpoint of this local variety from a perspective that incorporates both linguistic ideology and cultural politics. Focusing on the spoken version at the basilectal end of the English speech continuum, the article attempts to explore Singlish from a cultural-political viewpoint and challenges popular belief that Singlish encapsulates an established Singapore identity. In the process, it throws up some insights about language, identity and culture. Based on two significant contributing factors to the unmarked use of Singlish in Singapore, the paper argues that – more than just a language used for wider intra-communication in this tiny republic and city state – this variety, with its odd mix of English and local ethnic languages, mirrors a people who find themselves struggling with a myriad conflicting and contrasting cultures, a people in cultural and linguistic flux, who are still searching – desperately – for an identity, and a language they can call their own.

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Khiun, Liew Kai. "Singapore. The Asian modern: Culture, capitalist development, Singapore. By C.J.W.-L. Wee. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. Pp. 228, Notes, Bibliography, Index." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 41, no. 2 (May 4, 2010): 361–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463410000196.

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Van de Vliert, Evert. "Hidden Climato-Economic Roots of Differentially Privileged Cultures." Nature and Culture 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 44–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2016.110103.

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This theory-based study tests the interactive impacts of the demands of thermal climate and wealth resources on variations in privileged culture represented by mental health, personal freedom, and political democracy. Multiple regression analysis of aggregated survey data covering 106 countries shows that cultures vary from minimally privileged in poor countries with demanding climates (e.g., Azerbaijan and Belarus) to maximally privileged in rich countries with demanding climates (e.g., Canada and Finland). In between those extremes, moderate degrees of privileged culture prevail in poor and rich countries with undemanding climates (e.g., Colombia and Singapore). Rival explanations and competing predictors, including degrees of agrarianism versus capitalism, latitude and longitude, and parasitic disease burden, could not account for these findings in support of the burgeoning climato-economic theory of culture.

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DAHLES *, HEIDI. "Culture, capitalism and political entrepreneurship: Transnational business ventures of the Singapore‐Chinese in China." Culture and Organization 11, no. 1 (March 2005): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759550500062342.

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Ibrahim, Azhar. "Malay Literature in Singapore: Lines of Thought and Conflicting Ideas." Malay Literature 27, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 131–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.37052/ml.27(1)no8.

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A line of thought exists and develops from the socio-political and cultural atmosphere, apart from the writer’s level of public and individual awareness. Beginning with the call for “literature for society” by ASAS’50, the following decades saw more variety in literary trends, although, on the whole, established writers still remained committed to use literature as a means for raising awareness and channelling social criticism, while at the same time using it to present the ideal to which the writer aspires. In the cultural and political context of Singapore, there are three lines of thought. The first is a kind of foregrounding, in which the writer makes a universal observation of humankind and/or describes the condition of the Malay community with all its challenges and problems, touching on issues that have a basis in history or current realism. The second is the tendency to offer alternatives or echo moral messages that call for people to be more spiritual and more ethical in this life, without making a concrete link to the communal life or the structures and systems that underlie the society and nation. The third is a kind of escapism, indicated by a domestication of thought or “popularization” of literature following the dictates of a market in which light reading and entertainment-type reading materials are what sells. In Singapore today, writing is becoming more varied. What is to be observed is how literature has become the vehicle for refuting dominant ideas, apart from becoming the ground for competing ideas as writers present what they feel is the best idea in the interest of society. The challenge for developing an effective literary culture is ensuring that literary works have a clear social vision, employing good techniques and language skills, while at the same time building a grounded, people-oriented literature. This discussion will analyse the obstacles that complicate the literary culture of the Malay literature of Singapore as it aims to achieve all this. Keywords: modern literature, Singapore Malay, political culture, humanity, conflicting ideas

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Ohta, Mayumi. "Singapore - Malays in Singapore: Culture, Economy, and Ideology. By Tania Li. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 206. Glossary, Bibliography, Index." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 21, no. 2 (September 1990): 506–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400003726.

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Choo, Stephen. "Developing an entrepreneurial culture in Singapore: Dream or reality." Asian Affairs 36, no. 3 (November 2005): 361–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03068370500276332.

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Loke, Stephen W., Patricia A. Lowe, and Rebecca P. Ang. "Examination of Construct Bias in the Narcissistic Personality Questionnaire for Children–Revised Across Culture and Gender." Journal of Early Adolescence 38, no. 5 (February 9, 2017): 714–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272431617692442.

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Construct bias was examined among 316 Singapore and U.S. adolescents on the Narcissistic Personality Questionnaire for Children–Revised (NPQC-R). The NPQC-R consists of two (Superiority and Exploitativeness) factors. Results from multigroup confirmatory factor analyses indicated partial strong invariance on the NPQC-R across culture and strong invariance across gender. These results do not provide support for the presence of construct bias in the NPQC-R across culture and gender in our sample of Singapore and U.S. adolescents, ages 12 to 14. Furthermore, examination of latent means indicated that U.S. students reported higher levels of Superiority compared with Singapore students, but no significant difference was found in the levels of Exploitativeness between Singapore and U.S. students. In addition, males and females had similar levels of Superiority and Exploitativeness. Implications of the findings of the study are discussed.

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Ho, Chiew-Siang Bryan. "Youth activism, state-contained participation and democratic legitimacy in Singapore." Asian Education and Development Studies 9, no. 4 (September 30, 2019): 495–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-08-2018-0132.

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Purpose This research is concerned with youth activism in Singapore historically and the importance of legitimacy for understanding the further development of youth activism and Singapore’s democratization process. It takes into account issues pertaining to good governance, economic performance and democratic participation (legitimacy). The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a historical approach, qualitative in nature with some quantitative analysis based on documentary research, press reports and content analysis. Findings Historically youth activism was vibrant and dynamic in the fight for independence and against inequality and injustice during the colonial era in Singapore. Under Lee Kuan Yew’s rule, the scope and boundary of democratic participation (legitimacy) were delimited and controlled by the state. State-contained or controlled participation has replaced contentious politics. In the Singapore General Election in 2011, the younger generation of Singapore electorate, who are better educated and well-travelled, however, proved themselves to be rational and pragmatic when they exercised their rights to reject polices detrimental to their socio-economic well-beings as well as to the inclusiveness of society. The People’s Action Party (PAP) had the lowest vote share (60 per cent) in history. Since then the PAP government had stepped up its efforts in improving welfare gains of the citizens as well as managing public discontents with more effective policies. The PAP victory in the Singapore election (GE 2015), however, showed that among other reasons, welfare gains and good governance helped in salvaging the electoral legitimacy vis-à-vis the political legitimacy of the PAP government. However, the PAP government’s continual harsh treatment of critics, young and old, means that to achieve democratic legitimacy, it has to break through the shackles of authoritarian leadership style and elite governance, which have led to the regime’s failure to face up to the reality of an emerging civic participatory culture in the Singapore contexts. Originality/value Legitimacy is an important concept. To date there is no systematic application of this concept to the study of Singapore electoral politics. This paper employs Bruce Gilley’s determinants of legitimacy – democratic legitimacy, welfare gains and good governance – to explicate the basis of the PAP’s regime legitimacy, the contradictions inherent in state-contained participation and political representation that delimited and undermined the nature, scope and boundary of democratic legitimacy.

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ALSAGOFF, LUBNA. "English in Singapore: culture, capital and identity in linguistic variation." World Englishes 29, no. 3 (August 16, 2010): 336–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.2010.01658.x.

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Kong, Lily, Vineeta Sinha, and Nir Avieli. "Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore." Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 32, no. 2 (July 31, 2017): 432–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj32-2n.

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Adiputri, Ratih. "Social Science Research in Southeast Asia: the Challenges of Studying Parliamentary Institutions." IKAT : The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 2, no. 2 (January 17, 2019): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ikat.v2i2.40814.

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This paper introduces the challenges of studying parliamentary institutions in Southeast Asia. My focus of research is in three countries’ institutions: national parliaments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. While in Southeast Asia, it is widely known that studying issues of politics and institutions face challenges – compared to studying culture, for example, this view is arguably no longer valid, however with certainqualification.The comparison of parliamentary tradition between three countries – based on observation of the plenary session - reveals that the effectiveness of parliamentary works is related to parliamentary procedure, and even to the culture of work in the countries. Parliamentary structure, procedure and their political culture matters. Therefore, acknowledging these factors will give rise to more research opportunities, if a researcher plans to study the political institution in other countries in Southeast Asia.

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Dutta, Mohan Jyoti. "Singapore’s Extreme Neoliberalism and the COVID Outbreak: Culturally Centering Voices of Low-Wage Migrant Workers." American Behavioral Scientist 65, no. 10 (March 24, 2021): 1302–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642211000409.

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I draw on the key tenets of the culture-centered approach to co-construct the everyday negotiations of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) among low-wage male Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore. The culture-centered approach foregrounds voices infrastructures at the margins as the basis for theorizing health. Based on 87 hours of participant observations of digital spaces and 47 in-depth interviews, I attend to the exploitative conditions of migrant work that constitute the COVID-19 outbreak in the dormitories housing low-wage migrant workers. These exploitative conditions are intertwined with authoritarian techniques of repression deployed by the state that criminalize worker collectivization and erase worker voices. The principle of academic–worker–activist solidarity offers a register for alternative imaginaries of health that intervene directly in Singapore’s extreme neoliberalism.

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Heemsbergen, Luke, Angela Daly, Jiajie Lu, and Thomas Birtchnell. "3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?" Science, Technology and Society 24, no. 2 (July 2019): 254–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971721819841970.

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This article outlines preliminary findings from a futures forecasting exercise where participants in Shenzhen and Singapore considered the socio-technological construction of 3D printing in terms of work and social change. We offered participants ideal political-economic futures across local–global knowledge and capital–commons dimensions, and then had them backcast the contextual waypoints across markets, culture, policy, law and technology dimensions that help guide towards each future. Their discussion identified various contextually sensitive points, but also tended to dismiss the farthest reaches of each proposed ideal, often reverting to familiar contextual signifiers. Here, we offer discussion on how participants saw culture and industry shaping futures for pertinent political economic concerns in the twenty-first century.

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Krishna, Lalit RK. "Best interests determination within the Singapore context." Nursing Ethics 19, no. 6 (April 30, 2012): 787–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733011433316.

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Familialism is a significant mindset within Singaporean culture. Its effects through the practice of familial determination and filial piety, which calls for a family centric approach to care determination over and above individual autonomy, affect many elements of local care provision. However, given the complex psychosocial, political and cultural elements involved, the applicability and viability of this model as well as that of a physician-led practice is increasingly open to conjecture. This article will investigate some of these concerns before proffering a decision-making process based upon a multidisciplinary team approach. It will be shown that such a multidimensional and multiprofessional approach is more in keeping with the inclusive and patient-centred ethos of palliative care than prevailing practices. It will be shown that such an approach will also be better placed to deliver holistic, coherent and sensitive end-of-life care that palliative care espouses.

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Ozawa, Terutomo. "Exploring the Asian Economic Miracle: Politics, Economics, Society, Culture, and History — A Review Article." Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 1 (February 1994): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2059529.

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Structural upgrading and industrial dynamismin Pacific Asia—initially Japan, then the Asian NIEs (Newly Industrializing Economies: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) following closely behind, and most recently, ASEAN 4 (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines)—have been unprecedentedly phenomenal. This regional supergrowth in industrial activities has become the center of attention, but the evolving changes in the political systems and societal structures of the Pacific Asian nations have been, no doubt, equally important, although rather subtle and not so dramatic in appearance.

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Kobayashi, Yasuko. "Carl A. Trocki, Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 23, no. 1 (March 10, 2006): 134–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v23i1.696.

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Barr, Michael d. "Beyond technocracy: The culture of elite governance in Lee Hsien Loong's Singapore." Asian Studies Review 30, no. 1 (March 2006): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357820500537021.

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Sinha, Vineeta. "Unpacking the Labels "Hindu" and "Hinduism" in Singapore." Asian Journal of Social Science 25, no. 2 (1997): 139–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/030382497x00211.

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AbstractThis paper problematizes the taken-for-granted use of the labels "Hindu" and "Hinduism" in accounts of Indian religion and culture, on the premise that these descriptions have histories and are themselves constructions. A term like "Hindu" and its various derivatives (including "Hinduism") have been transformed from their original regional and possibly ethnic meanings to carrying religious substance. More importantly, specific meanings are attributed to these categories, particularly through orientalist and Indological writings, and have structured definitions and empirical interpretations of Indian religiosity. These writings have tended to produce homogeneous, monolithic and essentialist conceptualizations of Hinduism. Relying on ethnography, this paper provides empirical evidence to deconstruct the labels "Hindu" and "Hinduism" and to demonstrate how a complex of meanings can be attached to these labels only by attending to the socio-cultural and political specificities of their context of practice.

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Low, Yvonne. "Becoming professional artists in postwar Singapore and Malaya: Developments in art during a time of political transition." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 46, no. 3 (September 14, 2015): 463–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002246341500034x.

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This article aims to recover the background to the post-Second World War growth of local art activities, art education and the rise of the professional artist on the island of Singapore and peninsular Malaya. It examines how the transitional period spanning the dissolution of British colonialism and the establishment of two independent nations stimulated unique conditions for the development of local art education and created an amateur–professional artist divide. The promotion and support of fine arts and related activities were in tandem with nation-building strategies that sought to construct a common ‘Malayan’ culture and identity.

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Schiller, Anne, and Joel S. Kahn. "Southeast Asian Identities: Culture and the Politics of Representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand." Contemporary Sociology 29, no. 2 (March 2000): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654430.

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Hà, Tiên-Dung, and Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer. "Mapping ‘bio geo-body’ of Southeast Asia: strategic differentiation and identification of ethnic identity in Vietnam and Singapore." BioSocieties 16, no. 4 (October 27, 2021): 530–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00253-5.

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AbstractThis research explores how data from population genome projects in Southeast Asia are mobilized for identity formation beyond the lab. We compare two cases, the Vietnamese Genome Project which is funded by a Vietnamese private conglomerate and the Peranakan Genome Project in Singapore, to elucidate how the results from population genomic projects in Vietnam and Singapore are co-constituted with existing political and cultural narratives, as well as with varying notions of ‘Chinese-ness’. We find that while scientists in Vietnam use genomics to construct the Vietnamese as genetically independent from what is perceived to be an increasingly dominant Chinese geopolitical power, scientists and participants involved in the Peranakan Genome Project emphasize genomic and cultural mixing which happened between Southern Chinese migrants and the indigenous Malay population historically to distinguish from the rest of the ‘Chinese’ population in Singapore. The cases illustrate the different ways in which the actors involved in these two genome projects strategically differentiate and negotiate the ‘bio geo-body’ of the Vietnamese and the Peranakan in relation to the Chinese identity and nationalism, thereby revealing how genomics is intertwined with local and regional histories, culture and politics.

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Peng, Ito. "Shaping and Reshaping Care and Migration in East and Southeast Asia." Critical Sociology 44, no. 7-8 (March 21, 2018): 1117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920518758878.

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This article examines how culture, institution, and social policies interact to shape national approaches to care and the use of migrant care workers. I compare Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore to show variations in approaches to care and migration despite their cultural similarities. Through a conceptual framework that intersects culture, institution and policy I identify a spectrum of approaches that are evident across East Asia, ranging from highly regulated institutional to very liberal market oriented. The analysis shows that cultural, institutional and socio-economic factors are continuously interacting with each other to shape national understandings of care and the use of foreign care workers, and that different policies interact with each other referentially as they develop and affect social and cultural norms through policy feedback.

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Katz, Paul R. "Ritual? What Ritual? Secularization in the Study of Chinese Legal History, from Colonial Encounters to Modern Scholarship." Social Compass 56, no. 3 (September 2009): 328–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768609338762.

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The author explores the reasons why scholars have overlooked the importance of judicial rituals in Chinese legal culture and considers this neglect in the light of scholarship on secularization. He explores the issue by analysing the interaction between Chinese and western judicial practices in the colonial histories of the Straits Settlements (now Malaysia and Singapore) and Hong Kong. The concept of secularization appears to be of relevance to the study of Chinese legal culture, given that secularized societies tend to become differentiated into autonomous sub-systems, religion being restricted in influence to its own sub-system. In fact, however, religion has continuously interacted with a range of other sub-systems in China, including legal ones, which indicates that, in modern Chinese legal culture, religion and the law have not evolved into separate sub-systems.

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Rahman, Noor Aisha Abdul. "The Dominant Perspective on Terrorism and Its Implication for Social Cohesion: The Case of Singapore." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 27, no. 2 (September 17, 2009): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v27i2.2651.

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This paper seeks to portray and examine the dominant understanding of terrorism as reflected in official discourse in Singapore. It also evaluates its impact on attempts aimed at combating terrorism's potent threat to social cohesion. It is maintained that pervasive influence of the culturalist approach woven into the understanding of terrorism has had the effect of thrusting into focus Islam and certain presumptions of the identity and culture of the Muslim community of Singapore. The dominance of this approach conditions and compounds the lack of a more comprehensive and objective analysis of the phenomenon informed by concepts and methodology from the social sciences. This impedes efforts at fostering social resilience and cohesion aimed at thwarting the looming threat of terrorism.

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