The Political Economy of Social Control in SingaporeMacmillan, 1994 - 252 pagine "Singapore's rapid economic growth has attracted much admiration. But can this success be sufficiently explained by canny exploitation of a niche in the global free market? This book shows that there is a complex relationship between economic strategy, social control and political conflict in Singapore. It does this by looking at the regulatory functions of major state institutions." "Public housing increases state control and forces people into wage labour even while supplying a high standard of accommodation. Singaporeans are sorted, stratified and fragmented by the education system. Racism and patriarchal relations, seen in language, population planning and eugenics policies, are integral to education. Elections and parliament in Singapore are mechanisms for forcing submission, converting submission into consent and confining politics to parliamentary politics. The legal system functions to criminalise politics and politicise crime. The findings of all the chapters are drawn together to show how the system of social control has developed in phases in response to the changing nature of political resistance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Pagina 89
... Mandarin even though less than one per cent of Singapore Chinese had Mandarin as their mother- tongue ( Chew , 1982 , p . 66 ) . Mandarin had been the symbolic language for uniting Chinese linguistic com- munities around the political ...
... Mandarin even though less than one per cent of Singapore Chinese had Mandarin as their mother- tongue ( Chew , 1982 , p . 66 ) . Mandarin had been the symbolic language for uniting Chinese linguistic com- munities around the political ...
Pagina 139
... Mandarin in one part of the education system in case it was ever needed - as it was , for example , in order to take advantage of long - term commercial opportunities in China . In 1989 ten primary schools were chosen as ' seed ' SAP ...
... Mandarin in one part of the education system in case it was ever needed - as it was , for example , in order to take advantage of long - term commercial opportunities in China . In 1989 ten primary schools were chosen as ' seed ' SAP ...
Pagina 140
... Mandarin bilingual education . ( Shotam , 1989 , p . 512 ) The promotion of Mandarin as the symbolic language of all Chinese , whether or not they spoke it , set up a communal equation of ethnicity and language which had not previously ...
... Mandarin bilingual education . ( Shotam , 1989 , p . 512 ) The promotion of Mandarin as the symbolic language of all Chinese , whether or not they spoke it , set up a communal equation of ethnicity and language which had not previously ...
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Singapores Political Economy 339 | 30 |
The Workingclass Barracks | 45 |
Educating for Submission | 74 |
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