[PDF] Nationalism And Decolonisation In Singapore eBook

Author : Pingtjin Thum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9781032484242

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"Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore's decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and provides a framework to understand the deepest and most important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. This book demonstrates how these conflicts stem from four unresolved schisms dating from the decolonisation period: race, class, language, and the meaning of self-determination. The author argues that these schisms drove the events of decolonisation, the creation of Malaysia, and Singapore's separation, and continue to actively shape Singapore today. Using contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources from a wide array of perspectives, as well as numerous declassified official documents, this book provides a new approach to the most formative period of Singapore history. It explains in detail the different ideologies, institutions, and conflicts which shaped Singaporean politics and society during decolonisation. In particular, the book focuses on the leaders of the main groups which most heavily influenced Singapore's anti-colonial nationalism - the Chinese-speaking, the working class, and left-wing intellectuals. It looks at Singapore in the context of global movements of nationalism, socialism, and decolonisation, and provides a framework which can offer insight into similar attempts by post-colonial governments to construct new nation-states from plural societies. A novel study of Singapore's independence struggle that incorporates and analyses multiple linguistic, socioeconomic, and political viewpoints, the book will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation, nationalism, identity, and the politics of race, class, and language"--

Author : Thum Ping Tjin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100096244X

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Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1963 and provides a framework to understand the deepest and most important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. This book demonstrates how these conflicts stem from four unresolved schisms dating from the decolonisation period: race, class, language, and the meaning of self-determination. The author argues that these schisms drove the events of decolonisation, the creation of Malaysia, and Singapore’s separation and continue to actively shape Singapore today. Using contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources from a wide array of perspectives, as well as numerous declassified official documents, this book provides a new approach to the most formative period of Singapore history. It explains in detail the different ideologies, institutions, and conflicts which shaped Singaporean politics and society during decolonisation. In particular, the book focuses on the leaders of the main groups which most heavily influenced Singapore’s anti-colonial nationalism – the Chinesespeaking, the working class, and left-wing intellectuals. It looks at Singapore in the context of global movements of nationalism, socialism, and decolonisation and provides a framework which can offer insight into similar attempts by postcolonial governments to construct new nation-states from plural societies. A novel study of Singapore’s independence struggle that incorporates and analyses multiple linguistic, socioeconomic, and political viewpoints, the book will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian history and politics and those interested in decolonisation, nationalism, identity, and the politics of race, class, and language.

Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136839089

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This book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. Also, it shows how decolonisation was shaped not just by British aims, but by the way communism, communalism and nationalism facilitated and frustrated these.

Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 9780700713035

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This text explains British defence policy by examining the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in Southeast Asia.

Author : Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 113701234X

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What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of language.

Author : Santhiram R. Raman
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9672464584

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Santhiram’s critique of history education in Malaysia’s school system, past and present is both valuable and timely. His study reaffirms that history’s considerable value as an educative and academic undertaking is too often hijacked by political elites. This study is a salutary reminder why such tendencies should be challenged. S. Gopinathan Professor & Former Dean, National Institute of Education, Singapore Is it true, Santhiram asks, that the origin of the Malaysian nation is from the 1400s onwards? What of the earlier periods with the influence of diverse groups from across Southeast Asia; what of the contribution of more recent Chinese and Indian migration? As Santhiram comments, Malaysian historians and history teachers have some serious soul-searching to do. They might well begin that soul-searching by reading this powerful and important book. It deserves to be read widely, indeed, if Malaysian education is to move forward. John Furlong Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Santhiram has put together a highly readable narrative of the history of curriculum development, from a past oppressive colonial to the present tribal periods of Malaysian history. Santhiram tells the story simply and straightforwardly avoiding controversies but not denying the contentious nature surrounding the shaping of policies regarding the subject, its curriculum design and the construction of textbooks to buttress the implementation of the curriculum in the nation’s primary and secondary school systems. This is a very readable work. Tan Sri Gajaraj M Dhanarajan Emeritus Professor, Penang, Malaysia

Author : Clive J. Christie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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This book considers the overall decolonization of Southeast Asia and shows how, despite the great diversity of the region, issues of identity, religion and loyalism affected the newly-formed nation-states in remarkably similar ways.

Author : Marc Frey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 9780765611406

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Selected Contents: Introduction, Marc Frey, Ronald Pruessen, and Tan Tai Yong1. Dimensions of Decolonization, Paul H. Kratoska2. The Impact of the Second World War on Decolonization, Jost Dulffer3. The Economic Impact of Decolonization in Southeast Asia: Economic Nationalism and Foreign Direct Investment, 1945-1965, J. Thomas Lindblad4. Monarchy and Decolonization in Indochina, Bruce M. Lockhart5. France and the Associated States of Indochina (1945-1955), Hugues Tertrais6. The Indonesian Revolution and the Fall of the Dutch Empire: Actors, Factors, Strategies, Marc Frey7. Theories and Approaches to British Decolonization in Southeast Asia, Karl Hack8. British Attitudes and Policies on Nationalism and Regionalism, Nicholas Tarling9. The Grand Design: British Policy, Local Politics and the Making of Malaysia, 1955-1961, Tan Tai Yong10. Making Malaya Safe for Decolonization: The Rural Chinese Factor in the Counterinsurgency Campaign, Kumar Ramakrishna11. Nationalism in the Decolonization of Singapore, Albert Lau12. Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and U.S. Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam, Mark Philip Bradley13. The United States and Southeast Asia in an Era of Decolonization, 1945-1965, Robert J. McMahon14. John Foster Dulles and Decolonization in Southeast Asia, Ronald W. Pruessen15. Between SEATO and ASEAN: The United States and the Regional Organization of Southeast Asia, Kai Dreisbach16. Parable of Seeds: The Green Revolution in the Modernizing Imagination, Nick Cullather17. Afterward: The Limits of Decolonization, Wang Gungwu

Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415100526

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Since independence in 1965 Singapore has strengthened its own national identity through a conscious process of nation-building and promoting the active role of the citizen within society. Singapore is a state that has firmly rejected welfarism but whose political leaders have maintained that collective values, instead of those of autonomous individuals, are essential to its very survival. The book begins by examining basic concepts of citizenship, nationality and the state in the context of Singapore's arrival at independence. The theme of nation-building is explored and how the creation of a national identity, through building new institutions, has been a central feature of political and social life in Singapore. Of great importance has been education, and a system of multilingual education that is part of a broader government strategy of multiculturalism and multiracialism; both have served the purpose of building a new national identity. Other areas covered by the authors include family planning, housing policy, the creation of parapolitical structures and the imporatnce of shared `Asian values' amongst Singapore's citizens.