“Authenticity” and “foreign talent” in Singapore : the relative and negative logic of national identity
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...
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2014
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| Online Access: | 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 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |