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Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965-1990: The Cultural Politics of Pluralism in a Multiethnic Society

By John Clammer

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781138334793, 9781138334779, 9780429445095
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
737 kB (754704 bytes)
Series
Routledge Revivals
Pages
301\0
Time added
2022-08-05 13:13:34

Description

First published in 1998, this volume explores Singapore as an ideal case study for the examination of the management of postcoloniality, social diversity and the pursuit of economic growth with ethnic harmony. Singapore has, since independence, evolved a unique mix of state directed capitalism, revamped Confucianism and a social order based on an ideology of multiracialism. The result has been a State with enormous sociological diversity held together by the need to create a unified political order out of a population of immigrants of very diverse origins. This has placed the management of multiethnicity at the heart of political discourse and social policy. This book examines critically the operation of ethnicity in post-independence Singapore, the social policies that have been evolved to manage it, and the implications of the Singapore experiment for other plural societies in Asia and elsewhere.

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