Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond

This article begins by seeking an explanation for the solidarity between Malay inmates and guards in perpetrating abusive and discriminatory treatment towards Malay transvestites. In the course of explaining an empirical phenomenon in the Singapore prison, this article has examined Singapore's...

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Main Author: HANIF, Nafis
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-34782017-09-25T03:47:34Z Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond HANIF, Nafis This article begins by seeking an explanation for the solidarity between Malay inmates and guards in perpetrating abusive and discriminatory treatment towards Malay transvestites. In the course of explaining an empirical phenomenon in the Singapore prison, this article has examined Singapore's history and ethnic demography, the ethnic Malay minority's lack of socio-economic development and modernisation vis-a-vis the ethnic Chinese majority, geo-politics, the ideology and strategic choices of the state's political elite and their implications for inter-ethnic interactions between Malays and Chinese. As this article will argue, prison culture, rather than being divorced from larger society, is in effect able to articulate and elaborate on the processes of social exclusion faced by ethnic Malay minorities and male transvestites in Singapore society. By shifting the conceptual focus from 'prison in society' to prison of society', a new analytical dimension of informal inmate culture and social structure has been realised; one which suggests immense possibilities for prison literature. 2008-11-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2221 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3478/viewcontent/prison_spoilt.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Masculinity Discrimination in criminal justice administration Prisoners Sexual behavior Malays Singapore Asian Studies Law and Race Race and Ethnicity Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Masculinity
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Prisoners
Sexual behavior
Malays
Singapore
Asian Studies
Law and Race
Race and Ethnicity
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
spellingShingle Masculinity
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Prisoners
Sexual behavior
Malays
Singapore
Asian Studies
Law and Race
Race and Ethnicity
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
HANIF, Nafis
Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
description This article begins by seeking an explanation for the solidarity between Malay inmates and guards in perpetrating abusive and discriminatory treatment towards Malay transvestites. In the course of explaining an empirical phenomenon in the Singapore prison, this article has examined Singapore's history and ethnic demography, the ethnic Malay minority's lack of socio-economic development and modernisation vis-a-vis the ethnic Chinese majority, geo-politics, the ideology and strategic choices of the state's political elite and their implications for inter-ethnic interactions between Malays and Chinese. As this article will argue, prison culture, rather than being divorced from larger society, is in effect able to articulate and elaborate on the processes of social exclusion faced by ethnic Malay minorities and male transvestites in Singapore society. By shifting the conceptual focus from 'prison in society' to prison of society', a new analytical dimension of informal inmate culture and social structure has been realised; one which suggests immense possibilities for prison literature.
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author HANIF, Nafis
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title Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
title_short Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
title_full Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
title_fullStr Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
title_full_unstemmed Prison’s spoilt identities: Racially structured realities within and beyond
title_sort prison’s spoilt identities: racially structured realities within and beyond
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2008
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2221
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3478/viewcontent/prison_spoilt.pdf
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