Singapore S Permanent Territorial Revolution
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Singapore S Permanent Territorial Revolution
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Author : Rodolphe De Koninck
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Singapore S Permanent Territorial Revolution written by Rodolphe De Koninck and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Science categories.
Ever since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its government has been intent on transforming the island’s environment. This has led to a nearly constant overhaul of the landscape, whether still natural or already manmade. Not only are the shape and dimensions of the main island and its subsidiary ones constantly modified so are their relief and hydrology. No stone is left unturned, literally, and, one could add, nor is a single cultural feature, be it a house, a factory, a road or a cemetery. Given one of Singapore’s unique feature, namely that the state is the sole landlord, all types of property in all parts of the island, rural as well as urban, were and remain subject to expropriation, fortunately always with due compensation. This atlas illustrates, essentially through diachronic mapping of the changing distribution of all forms of land use, the universality of what has become a tool of social management. By constantly “replanning” the rules of access to space, the Singaporean State is thus redefining territoriality, even in its minute details. This is one reason it has been able to consolidate its control over civil society, peacefully and to an extent rarely known in history.
Eating Chilli Crab In The Anthropocene
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Author : Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2022-08-13
Eating Chilli Crab In The Anthropocene written by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-13 with Architecture categories.
In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine. This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ecocultural lens, looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us. The authors represent a new generation of cultural critics and environmental thinkers, who will inherit the future we are creating today. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, O-levels to orang minyak films, these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, prompting us to recognise the incredible urgency of climate change and the need to transform our ways of thinking, acting, learning, living, and governing so as to maintain a stable planet and a decent future.
The Nanyang Revolution
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Author : Anna Belogurova
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
The Nanyang Revolution written by Anna Belogurova and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with History categories.
A ground-breaking analysis of how the Malayan Communist Party helped forge a Malayan national identity, while promoting Chinese nationalism.
Robert Zhao
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language : en
Publisher: Singapore Art Musuem
Release Date : 2024-04-17
Robert Zhao written by and has been published by Singapore Art Musuem this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-17 with Art categories.
The publication Robert Zhao Renhui: Seeing Forest, Volume 1 of 2 accompanies Robert Zhao Renhui’s eponymous exhibition at the Singapore Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 20 April to 24 November 2024, curated by Haeju Kim and organized by Singapore Art Museum. In addition to conceptual sequences of Zhao Renhui’s images and curator Haeju Kim’s essay, this companion book gathers an assemblage of texts from various times, authors, contexts, and sources. Organized in the “Reader” section at the center of the volume, these archival pieces range from publications going as far back as 1883 to being as recent as 2020. Juxtaposing scientific and philosophical analyses with artistic interventions, storytelling, and critical reflection, the selection echoes and reverberates an interest in different ways of knowing mobilized by . Two newly commissioned essays, by environmental historian Marcus Yee and writer Jeffrey Kastner, offer in-depth meditations specifically on the artist’s practice and current intervention. As a special treat, in the concluding piece, Zhao interviews his friend and long-standing collaborator Yong Ding Li about their respective and shared experiences of working across art and ecology in Singapore.
Urban Landscapes In High Density Cities
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Author : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Urban Landscapes In High Density Cities written by Bianca Maria Rinaldi and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Architecture categories.
The positive effects of urban green spaces are well-known, ranging from the promotion of health, support of biodiversity to climate regulation. However, the practical implementation of urban landscapes is less discussed. How can we make these spaces functional, economically feasible and inclusive, especially as cities become more diverse? The publication explores strategies to reconcile the various demands, such as food production, resilience and nature conservation. Indeed, urban landscapes have to be restorative, ecological and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. This is a particular challenge in high-density cities like Singapore, Seoul or New York where space is a scarce commodity. The continuing growth of the worldwide urban population imbues the topic with a special urgency.
A City In Blue And Green
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Author : Peter G. Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-30
A City In Blue And Green written by Peter G. Rowe and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-30 with Science categories.
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with complementary roles of environmental conservation, ecology, public open-space management and the greening of buildings, together with infrastructural improvements.
Permanent Revolution
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Author : James Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Permanent Revolution written by James Simpson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
How did the English Reformation, with its illiberal, intolerant beginnings, lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment—free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, constitutionalism, and all the rest? In his provocative rewriting of the history of liberalism, James Simpson uncovers its unexpected debt to Protestant evangelicalism.
Technical Territories
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Author : Luke Munn
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
Technical Territories written by Luke Munn and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Political Science categories.
Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint of soil, today’s territories are enacted through data infrastructures. From subsea cables to server halls, these infrastructures underpin new forms of governance, shaping subjects and their everyday lives. Technical Territories moves from masked protestors in Hong Kong to asylum-seekers in Christmas Island and sand miners in Singapore, exploring how these territories are both political and visceral, altering the experience of their inhabitants. Infrastructures have now become geopolitical, strategic investments that advance national visions, extend influence, and trigger trade wars. Yet at the same time, these technologies also challenge sovereignty as a bounded container, enacting a more distributed and decoupled form of governance. Such “technical territories” construct new zones where subjects are assembled, rights are undermined, labor is coordinated, and capital is extracted. The stable line of the border is replaced by more fluid configurations of power. Luke Munn stages an interdisciplinary intervention over six chapters, drawing upon a wide range of literature from technical documents and activist accounts, and bringing insights from media studies, migration studies, political theory, and cultural and social studies to bear on these new sociotechnical conditions.
Contested Territory
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Author : Christian C. Lentz
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Contested Territory written by Christian C. Lentz and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with History categories.
The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests.
Southeast Asia And Environmental Sustainability In Context
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Author : Sunil Kukreja
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2019-12-15
Southeast Asia And Environmental Sustainability In Context written by Sunil Kukreja and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with Political Science categories.
This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus they bring a much more nuanced and locally informed orientation to their respective contributions.