new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 25th, 2011
Social Labelling, Discipline and Discrimination in Contemporary Singapore Kwee Hui Kian and Teng Siao See s/pores editors In s/pores No. 4, Tan Pin Pin curated a provocatively titled theme issue on “What if…?” To ask this question of “if (not)…then what?”, one implicitly accepts the “what is” – without a priori questioning whatever that “what” […]
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 25th, 2011
Transcribed and compiled by Kwee Hui Kian Preamble: On February 5, 1994, the Straits Times (ST) published a report by Felix Soh that Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma – artistic director and resident playwright of The Necessary Stage (TNS) – were trained at workshops conducted by the Brecht Forum in New York. After this fiasco […]
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 25th, 2011
Transcribed and compiled by Kwee Hui Kian An activist of migrant workers’ rights, John Gee was at the time of interview President of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), a non-profit organisation that is concerned with the welfare of migrant workers. Among its initiatives, TWC2 has launched a “Day Off Campaign” for foreign domestic workers as […]
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 24th, 2011
Transcribed and compiled by Teng Siao See The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was established in 1985 as a non-profit organization that campaigns for gender equality through research and advocacy as well as through provision of social services for women. In March 2009, AWARE was briefly taken over by an evangelical conservative […]
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 23rd, 2011
Philip Holden Review of Robert Yeo, Routes: A Singaporean Memoir, 1940-75, Singapore: Ethos Book, 2011, 384 pages. Robert Yeo’s Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-1975 doesn’t at first seem like a memoir at all. The book consists of photographs, prose vignettes, fully transcribed letters, documents such as school reports, and long quotations from sources as diverse […]
