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

• Main Author: Yang, Peidong
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform
• 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
• Institution: 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...