(re)Presenting political perspectives : privileging pragmatism or persecuting pluralism?

• Main Author: Koh, Ian Russell
• Other Authors: Md Saidul Islam
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69028
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research problematizes the arbitrary operationalization of “pragmatism” in the official narrative of Singapore’s history, and posits that the ideographic rhetoric often utilized by the State in its maintenance of ideological hegemony is being challenged by the activism of civil society within a...