Black areas: Urban kampongs and power relations in post-war Singapore historiography
Loh, K.S. (2007) Black areas: Urban kampongs and power relations in post-war Singapore historiography. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 22 (1). pp. 1-29.
By analysing a collection of key texts, this paper examines state-society relations in post-war Singapore in social and spatial terms. It traces the history of state regulation of urban space and a parallel story ot resistance by the Chinese population, This paper analyses the making of modern Singapore as a contestation over urban space in the post-war years. A strategic theatre of this struggle was the autonomous Chinese kampongs on the urban periphery. A controlling discourse, representing the urban kampongs as sites of social pollution, made possible the state's efforts to eradicate them by relocating their dwellers in public housing.
|Publication Type:||Journal Article|
|Murdoch Affiliation:||Asia Research Centre|
|Publisher:||Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|
|Copyright:||© 2007 ISEAS.|
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