 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
RESPONDING TO GLOBALIZATION
NATION, CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN SINGAPORE |
| By: |
Selvaraj Velayutham |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£41.50 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
9812304215 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789812304216 |
| Publisher: |
INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2007 |
| Pages: |
239 |
| Description: |
Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success. |
| Synopsis: |
Despite unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, little academic attention has been paid to how governments actively deal with the challenges globalization poses for national identity. This book investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity and the shifting ways in which Singapore has been imagined in official discourses.This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success. |
| Publication: |
Singapore |
| Imprint: |
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|