Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore

Resource Information

The work Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Global city futures : desire and development in Singapore

Title remainder

desire and development in Singapore

Statement of responsibility

Natalie Oswin

Creator

• Oswin, Natalie, 1971-
• Oswin, Natalie, 1971-

Author

• Oswin, Natalie, 1971-
• Oswin, Natalie, 1971-

Subject

• Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- Singapore
• Since 1900
• Singapore
• Singapore
• Singapore -- Politics and government -- 1965-1990
• Singapore -- Politics and government -- 1965-1990.
• Singapore -- Politics and government -- 1990-
• Singapore -- Politics and government -- 1990-
• Economic development -- Political aspects -- Singapore
• Gay rights -- Singapore
• Gays -- Singapore -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Gays -- Singapore -- Social conditions -- 21st century

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"

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

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