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Asian Diasporas

Cultures, Indentity, Representation

By: Robbie B.H. Goh,Shawn Wong

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Asian Diasporas

Cultures, Indentity, Representation

By: Robbie B.H. Goh,Shawn Wong

Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where the focus is on issues of crime, housing, employment, racism and related concerns. The essays in this volume view Asian diasporic movements in the context of globalization and global citizenship, in which multiple cultural allegiances, influences and claims together create complex negotiations of identity.Examining a range of cultural documents through which such negotiations are conducted — literature and other forms of writing, media, popular culture, urban spaces, military inscriptions, and so on — the essays in this volume explore the meanings and experiences involved in the two major Asian diasporic movements, those of South and East Asia.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622096727

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Contours of Culture

Space and Social Difference in Singapore

By: Robbie B.H. Goh

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Contours of Culture

Space and Social Difference in Singapore

By: Robbie B.H. Goh

This volume discusses the urban history and cultural landscape of Singapore in relation to theories of textual dialogics, multiculturalism and the cultural and political unconscious. Multidisciplinary in approach, it takes as its data not only government policy and official discourses, and the more quantitative elements of population census information on religion, income, race and nationality, but also a wide range of related cultural discourses in film, literature, media texts, social behaviour and other interventions and interpretations of the city. The main parameters of Singapore’s socio-national construction—public housing, social elitism, racial and linguistic plurality and their management, colonial remnants and their transformation—are explained and analysed in terms of Singapore’s colonial past, its rapid modernization, and its current push to compete as a global city and tourist destination. This multidisciplinary book should be of interest to a correspondingly wide readership, including architects and urban planners, political scientists, cultural analysts and theorists, colonial discourse scholars, urban geographers and sociologists, Asian studies specialists, graduate and undergraduate students in the above areas, and a general readership interested in cities and cultures. “This is a remarkable book. By taking a series of readings of Singapore’s urban culture, it chronicles the emergence of a new city form which, through the coming together of quite particular narratives of modernity, nationhood and identity may well be providing a much more general spatial model for Asian cities. Simultaneously, it provides a gripping account of how to read the possibilities and tensions that this model throws up.” —Nigel J. Thrift, Oxford University “Goh’s theoretically sophisticated and creative analysis of Singapore’s society, space and culture and his brilliant critique of the city’s official policies of self-representation is a marvellous tour de force. An astute urban semiotician and interpreter of cultural signs, Goh draws on films, figures and fiction to provide a fascinating reading of a city preparing for global competition. Questions of ethnicity, class, sexuality, national identity, architecture and space are brought together in an imaginative—as well as provocative—exercise of symbolic explication and analysis. Essential for studies of Asian urbanism and a model for students of the (so-called) ‘global city’.” —Anthony King, State University of New York at Binghamton “In Contours of Culture Robbie Goh has achieved what many specialists in cultural studies have attempted only metaphorically, by successfully fusing the materiality of spatiality with the symbolic realm of cultural processes. The result is an absorbing and nuanced interpretation of the meaning of the landscapes of Singapore, where space serves as a text that reflects and reproduces the political cultures of a global city in a state of constant re-invention.” —David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada

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9622097316

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Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretive Experiences

By: Robbie B. H. Goh,Brenda S. A. Yeoh

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Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretive Experiences

By: Robbie B. H. Goh,Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned.

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World Scientific

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9812382836

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9789812382832

The Silent Word

Textual Meaning and the Unwritten

By: Robert Young,Kah Choon Ban,Robbie B. H. Goh

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The Silent Word

Textual Meaning and the Unwritten

By: Robert Young,Kah Choon Ban,Robbie B. H. Goh

The book comprises a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.

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190

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World Scientific

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9971692112

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9789971692117

Christianity in Southeast Asia

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

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Christianity in Southeast Asia

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

This book briefly recounts the history of the establishment and expansion of Christianity during the colonial and post-colonial eras. With the exception of the Philippines, Christianity has been a minor religion in much of Southeast Asia, albeit one whose followers have sometimes played key roles in developing education and social services. Although statistically small, evangelical Christian groups in particular are trying to increase membership and influence, which may have adverse reactions in the countries whose populations are adherents of other major world faiths.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9812302972

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Language, Space and Cultural Play

Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape

By: Lionel Wee,Robbie B. H. Goh

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Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape

By: Lionel Wee,Robbie B. H. Goh

A multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes that analyses the affective regimes of different landscape categories.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108472206

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Christopher Nolan

Filmmaker and Philosopher

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

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Christopher Nolan

Filmmaker and Philosopher

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan's oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director's postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the mise en abyme, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a 'reluctant postmodernist'. His films reflect the cynicism of the modern world, but with their representation of heroic moral triumphs, they also resist it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350139998

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Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

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Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

This is the first comprehensive study of Protestant Christian religious identities in the Indian diaspora. Using qualitative interview methods, Robbie B. H. Goh captures the experiences of Indian Protestants in ten different countries and regions, describing how Indian communal Christian identities are negotiated and transformed in a variety of diasporic contexts ranging from Canada to Qatar. Goh argues that Christianity in India, developed within discrete and varied "ecologies," translates in the diaspora into a model of small communal churches that struggle with issues of community maintenance, evangelical growth, and Pentecostal influences. He looks at the significance of Christianity's "abject" position in India, the interplay and tension between evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Pentecostalism's insistence on religious endogamy (particularly among women), intrareligious differences along generational lines, the actions of Hindutva hard-line elements, and other factors, in the construction and transformation of diasporic religious identities and affective attachments to India.

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State University of New York Press

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1438469446

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Contours of Culture

Space and Social Difference in Singapore

By: Robbie B.H. Goh

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Space and Social Difference in Singapore

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Christopher Nolan

Filmmaker and Philosopher

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Filmmaker and Philosopher

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Christianity in Southeast Asia

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Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions

By: Robbie B. H. Goh

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Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions

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Language, Space and Cultural Play

Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape

By: Lionel Wee,Robbie B. H. Goh

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Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape

By: Lionel Wee,Robbie B. H. Goh

A multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes that analyses the affective regimes of different landscape categories.

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Cambridge University Press

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Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretive Experiences

By: Robbie B. H. Goh,Brenda S. A. Yeoh

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Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretive Experiences

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Book's by Robbie B.H. Goh

Asian Diasporas

Asian Diasporas

Contours of Culture

Contours of Culture

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

The Silent Word

The Silent Word

Christianity in Southeast Asia

Christianity in Southeast Asia

Language, Space and Cultural Play

Language, Space and Cultural Play

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Contours of Culture

Contours of Culture

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Christianity in Southeast Asia

Christianity in Southeast Asia

Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Language, Space and Cultural Play

Language, Space and Cultural Play

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text

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