Defining Singapore : reconciling the national narrative and global city ehtos

• Main Author: Kuah, Adrian W. J
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96952; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11512
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore's national conversations have focused as much attention to issues of the Singaporean identity, national values, rootedness and the sense of belonging, as they have to bread-and-butter issues of economic growth, jobs and housing. This ground-up interest in the national narrative m ay...