new directions in singapore studies
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 9 the arts II on Jun 19th, 2011
Richard Chua The late Singapore theatre practitioner William Teo served tea to audience members in every evening performance. Kuo Pao Kun used to stand at the front of house of his theatre productions greeting and giving out programme booklets to audience members.
Posted in 8 intellectuals on Dec 23rd, 2010
Kelvin Chia Situating The Tangent: Chinese-educated intellectuals in Singapore’s socio-political history The Chinese community in pre-Independence Singapore can be seen as one that is bifurcated between the ‘Chinese-educated’ and the ‘English-educated’. These two sectors were schooled in institutions that use Chinese (i.e. Mandarin) and English respectively as their dominant language of instruction, and this distinction […]
Posted in 8 intellectuals on Dec 23rd, 2010
Constance Singam I was in a taxi chatting with the driver, a Chinese man, when he spotted an Indian woman on the roadside. He points to her and says to me, ‘There’s your country woman’, and I tell him, ‘We are all from the same country; we are all Singaporeans’. ‘No’, he says, ‘Singapore belongs […]
