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Meritocracy and Elitism in a Global City: Ideological Shifts in Singapore
- K. Tan
- Political Science
- 1 January 2008
The concept of meritocracy is unstable as its constituent ideas are potentially contradictory. The egalitarian aspects of meritocracy, for example, can come into conflict with its focus on talent…
The Ideology of Pragmatism: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Political Authoritarianism in Singapore
- K. Tan
- Political Science
- 1 February 2012
Abstract This article uncovers the strongly ideological quality in Singapore's theory and practice of pragmatism. It also points to a strongly pragmatic quality in the ideological negotiations that…
Sexing Up Singapore
- K. Tan
- Political Science
- 1 December 2003
At least two significant obstacles today prevent Singapore from progressing economically: a population unable to reproduce itself; and a people that generally lack creativity and entrepreneurship.…
Who's Afraid of Catherine Lim? The State in Patriarchal Singapore
- K. Tan
- Political Science
- 1 March 2009
Catherine Lim, born in 1942, is an award-winning Singaporean novelist, short-story writer and poet, with 18 books to her name, published in France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Italy, the…
Choosing What to Remember in Neoliberal Singapore: The Singapore Story, State Censorship and State-Sponsored Nostalgia
- K. Tan
- Sociology
- 2 April 2016
Abstract This article interrogates the persistence of heavy-handed censorship of political films in Singapore at a time of cultural liberalisation when the state has generally shown greater tolerance…
IMAGINING THE GAY COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE
- K. Tan, Gary Lee Jack Jin
- Sociology
- 12 July 2007
ABSTRACT Through an analysis of public responses to two separate but related events in contemporary Singapore — a church's claim that “homosexuals can change” and a former prime minister's published…
Singapore's National Day Rally speech: A site of ideological negotiation
- K. Tan
- Sociology
- 3 July 2007
Abstract This article analyses the inaugural National Day Rally speeches of three Singapore prime ministers. It locates these speeches in the continuous ideological work that the People's Action…
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