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The Resource Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore, Natalie Oswin

Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore, Natalie Oswin

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"Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading 'global city.' Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development, and on the fact that many city and national governors around the world see it as a developmental model. But counter-narratives complicate this success story, pointing out rising income inequalities, the lack of a social safety net, an unjust migrant labor regime, significant restrictions on civil liberties, and more. Global City Futures contributes to such critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state. It extends out from these debates to consider the ways in which the race, class, and gender biases that are already well critiqued in the literature on Singapore (and on other cities around the world) are tied in key ways to efforts to make the city-state into not just a heterosexual space that excludes 'queer' subjects, but a heteronormative one that 'queers' many more than LGBT people. The book thus argues for the importance of taking the politics of sexuality and intimacy much more seriously within both Singapore studies and the wider field of urban studies"
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • A developmental city-state
  • Singapore as "straight space"
  • Section 377a and the colonial trace
  • Making the modern model family at home
  • From queer to decolonized
Isbn
9780820355023
Instance
Label
Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore
Title
Global city futures
Title remainder
desire and development in Singapore
Statement of responsibility
Natalie Oswin
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading 'global city.' Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development, and on the fact that many city and national governors around the world see it as a developmental model. But counter-narratives complicate this success story, pointing out rising income inequalities, the lack of a social safety net, an unjust migrant labor regime, significant restrictions on civil liberties, and more. Global City Futures contributes to such critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state. It extends out from these debates to consider the ways in which the race, class, and gender biases that are already well critiqued in the literature on Singapore (and on other cities around the world) are tied in key ways to efforts to make the city-state into not just a heterosexual space that excludes 'queer' subjects, but a heteronormative one that 'queers' many more than LGBT people. The book thus argues for the importance of taking the politics of sexuality and intimacy much more seriously within both Singapore studies and the wider field of urban studies"
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1971-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Oswin, Natalie
Dewey number
338.95957
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ76.3.S55
LC item number
O89 2019eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Geographies of justice and social transformation
Series volume
44
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Gays
  • Gays
  • Homosexuality
  • Gay rights
  • Singapore
  • Singapore
  • Economic development
  • Singapore
Label
Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore, Natalie Oswin
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A developmental city-state -- Singapore as "straight space" -- Section 377a and the colonial trace -- Making the modern model family at home -- From queer to decolonized
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780820355023
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv5p76cf
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1099434913
Label
Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore, Natalie Oswin
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A developmental city-state -- Singapore as "straight space" -- Section 377a and the colonial trace -- Making the modern model family at home -- From queer to decolonized
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780820355023
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctv5p76cf
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1099434913

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