Cosmopolitan boundaries in Singapore : a study of Singaporean film

• Main Author: Lim, Shane Han Jung
• Other Authors: C. J. Wee Wan-ling
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85310; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49829
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While, in most cases, the discourse of cosmopolitanism is seen as a unifying step from divisive social structures, I argue in this thesis that the state’s vision of cosmopolitanism instead facilitates social inequality, through the state’s control of the urbanscape and the way space is produced. In...