“Authenticity” and “foreign talent” in Singapore : the relative and negative logic of national identity

• 主要作者: Yang, Peidong
• 其他作者: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2014
• 主題: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101809; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24226; http://www.academia.edu/7477000/Yang_P._2014_Authenticity_and_Foreign_Talent_in_Singapore_The_Relative_and_Negative_Logic_of_National_Identity._SOJOURN_Journal_of_Social_Issues_in_Southeast_Asia_29_2_408-437
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore’s constitutive sociocultural hybridity has meant that this postcolonial island-nation’s national identity has always been a problematic construct. The developmental state’s pragmatism and self-re-inventiveness further undermine the efforts to construct a stable national identity, frustrati...