The modern prison : a conceptual analysis of Michel Foucault’s panopticism versus paternalism in relations to modern day Singapore society

• Main Author: Ho, Glenn Lucius
• Other Authors: Christopher Holman
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76673
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Surveillance as a form of Panopticism had been made popular by Michel Foucault’s disciplinary society in the 18th Century Europe. This surveillance culture and the idea of the panoptic society is still relevant in the local context today. In modern day Singapore, the normalisation of surveillance an...