GEK2001/SSA2202/GES1003

CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF SINGAPORE

SEMESTER 1 AY2018/2019
READING LIST
* denotes Compulsory Reading

Main Textbook: Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (eds) (2013). Changing
Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. Singapore: NUS Press.

Lecture 1 (14 Aug 2018): Introduction and Landscape Concepts (Dr. Shaun Lin)
*Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (2013), “Introduction: Rediscovering
Singapore’s changing landscapes”, in Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (eds)
(2013). Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. Singapore:
NUS Press, pp. 1-21

Winchester, H., Kong, L and Dunn, K. (2003). Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the
World. UK: Pearson Education. Chapter 2: Changing Geographical Approaches to
Cultural Landscapes, pp. 10-34

Winchester, H., Kong, L and Dunn, K. (2003). Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the
World. UK: Pearson Education. Chapter 8: The Role of Landscapes, pp. 174-179.

Kong, L. and Law, L. (2003). “Introduction: Contested Landscapes, Asian Cities”,
Urban Studies, 39(9), pp. 1503-1512.

Lecture 2 (21 Aug 2018): Urban Planning in Singapore (A/P Shirlena Huang)
*Huang, S. (2013) “The heart of a global city: The remaking of Singapore’s city
centre”, in Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (eds) (2013). Changing
Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. Singapore: NUS Press, pp.
81-105

*Teo, Peggy, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Ooi Giok Ling and Karen P.Y. Lai (2004) Changing
Landscapes of Singapore, McGraw Hill, Singapore. Chapter 4: Urbanisation and
Landscape Changes, pp 53-71

Chang, T.C. and Huang, S. (2011) “Reclaiming the city: waterfront development in
Singapore”, Urban Studies, 48 (10), 2085-2100.

Pow, C.P. (2016) “Creating a liveable city for whom? A critical examination of
Singapore's recent urban transformation”, in Mathews, M and Wai, F.C. (eds)
(2016). Managing Diversity in Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific, pp.173-187
(Chapter 7).

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Shatkin, G. (2014) “Reinterpreting the meaning of the ‘Singapore model’: State
capitalism and urban planning”, International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, 38(1), pp.116-137.

Yuen, B. (2011) “Urban planning in Southeast Asia: Perspective from Singapore”,
Town Planning Review, 82(2), pp. 145-167.

Lecture 3 (28 Aug 2018): Public Housing Landscapes (Dr. Sin Harng Luh)
*Pow, C.P. (2013). “From housing a nation to meeting its rising aspirations: Evolution
of public housing over the years”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.),
Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS
Press, pp. 43-60.

* Chua, B.H. (2014). Navigating Between Limits: The Future of Public Housing in
Singapore, Housing Studies, 29(4), 520-533.

Goh, R. B.H. (2001). “Ideologies of upgrading in Singapore public housing:
postmodern style, globalisation and class construction in the built environment”,
Urban Studies, 38(9), pp. 1589- 1604.

Chua, B.H. (1997). Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore,
London: Routledge, Chp 7.

[VIDEO] “Housing a country: Remaking our heartland: Realise, rejuvenate,
regenerate” (CDV3657); “Singapore First (Housing)” (CDV2788) [On IVLE]

Lecture 4 (4 Sep 2018): Landscapes of Nature (Dr. Sin Harng Luh)
*Neo, H. (2013). “Nature and the environment as an evolving concern in urban
Singapore”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.), Changing Landscapes of
Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 61-80.

*Tan, P. Y., Wang, J. and Sia, A. (2013). “Perspectives on five decades of the urban
greening of Singapore”, Cities, 32, pp. 24-32.

Neo, H. (2007). “Challenging the developmental state: nature conservation in
Singapore”, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 48(2), pp. 186-199.

Savage, Victor, Shirlena Huang and Lily Kong (2001) ‘Global Environmental Change:
the Singapore Response’, in Singh, R.B. (ed.) Urban Sustainability in the context of
Global Change: Towards Promoting Healthy and Green Cities, Science Publishers,
Enfield, pp. 1-16 [CL-RBR HT241 Urb]

Lecture 5 (11 Sep 2018): Heritage Landscapes (Dr. Shaun Lin)
*Muzaini, H. (2013). “Heritage landscapes and nation-building in Singapore”, in Ho
E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old
Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 25-42.

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* Henderson, J. (2011). “Understanding and using built heritage: Singapore’s national
monuments and conservation areas”, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17
(1), pp. 46-61.

Kong, L. (1999) The invention of heritage: popular music in Singapore, Asian Studies
Review, 23 (1): 1-25.

Muzaini, H., Teo, P. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2007). “Intimations of postmodernity in dark
tourism: The fate of history at Fort Siloso, Singapore”, Journal of Tourism and
Cultural Change, 5(1), pp. 28–45.

Chang, T.C. (1999) “Local uniqueness in the global village: Heritage tourism in
Singapore”, The Professional Geographer, 51(1), pp. 91-103.

Henderson, J. (2011) Hip heritage: The boutique hotel business in Singapore, Tourism
and Hospitality Research, 11(3), 217-223.

Kong, L. (1996) Making “music at the margins"? A social and cultural analysis of
Xinyao in Singapore, Asian Studies Review, 19:3, 99-124.

Lecture 6 (18 Sep 2018): Landscapes of Community and Familyhood (Dr. Sin Harng
Luh)
*Ramdas, K. (2013). “Contesting landscapes of familyhood: Singlehood, the AWARE
Saga and Pink Dot celebrations”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.),
Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS
Press, pp. 109-125.

*Teo, Y. (2013). “Support for deserving families: Inventing the anti-welfare familialist
state in Singapore”, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society,
20(3), pp. 387- 406.

Mele, C. (2016) “Spatial order through the family: the regulation of urban space in
Singapore”, Urban Geography, forthcoming.

Chua, B.H. (2003). “Multiculturalism in Singapore: An instrument of social control”,
Race & Class, 44(3): 58-77.

Various websites: AWARE, We-are-AWARE, Pink Dot, Ministry of Social and Family
Development.

Recess Week: 22 – 30 Sep 2018

Lecture 7 (2 Oct 2018): Elderly Landscapes (A/P Shirlena Huang)
*Abdul Rahman, N. (2013) “Growing old in Singapore: Social constructions of old age
and the landscapes of the elderly”, in Ho E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K (eds.),
Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore:
NUS Press, pp. 126-141.

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*Teo, P., Kalyani, M., Leng Leng, T. and Chan, A. (2006). Ageing in Singapore: Service
Needs and the State, London and New York: Routledge. (Chapters 6 & 7)

Ministry of Health (2016) I Feel Young in My Singapore: Action Plan for Successful
Ageing. Singapore: MOH, 44 pages. Available at:
https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/dam/moh_web/SuccessfulAgeing/action-
plan.pdf

Thang, L.L. (2011) “Population aging, older workers and productivity issues: The case
of Singapore”, Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 27:1, 17-33,

Wee, S.L., Hu, A.J., Yong, J., Chong, W.F., Raman, P. and Chan, A, (2015)
Singaporeans’ Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Long-Term Care Services
Qualitative Health Research, 25(2,) 218– 227.

Wong, Y.S. and Verbrugge, L.M. (2009) “Living alone: elderly Chinese Singaporeans”,
Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology, 24(3), pp. 209-224.

Lecture 8 (9 Oct 2018): Immigration Landscapes (A/P Shirlena Huang)
*Ye, J. (2013) “Migrant landscapes: A spatial analysis of South Asian male migrants in
Singapore”, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.), Changing Landscapes of
Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 142-157.

*Yeoh, B.S.A. and Lin, W. (2013) “Chinese migration to Singapore: Discourses and
discontents in a globalizing nation-state”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal,
22(1), pp. 31-54.

Huang, S. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2015) “Foreign domestic workers in Singapore: A
neglected social issue?”, in Chan, D. (ed.), 50 Years of Social Issues in Singapore,
Singapore: World Scientific, pp.167-187.

Oswin, N. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2010) “Introduction: Mobile city Singapore’, Mobilities,
5(2), 167-175.

Wise, A. and Velayutham, S. (2014) “Conviviality in everyday multiculturalism: Some

brief comparisons between Singapore and Sydney”, European Journal of Cultural
Studies, 17(4), 406-430.

Yeoh, B.S.A. (2006). “Bifurcated labour: The unequal incorporation of transmigrants

in Singapore”, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 97(1), pp. 26-37.

Lecture 9 (16 Oct 2018): Economic Landscapes (Dr. Shaun Lin)
*Lai, K. (2013). “Singapore’s economic landscapes: Local transformations and global
networks”, in Ho E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K (eds.), Changing Landscapes of
Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 196-217.

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*Phelps, Nicholas A. (2007). “Gaining from globalization? State extraterritoriality and
domestic economic impacts – The case of Singapore”, Economic Geography, 83 (4),
pp. 371-393.

Holden, K. and Demeritt, D. (2008). “Democratising science? The politics of
promoting biomedicine in Singapore’s developmental state”, Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, 26, pp. 68-86.

Yeoh, C.H., Pow, W. N. and Leong, A. L. (2005). ‘‘‘Created’ enclaves for enterprise: an
empirical study of Singapore's industrial parks in Indonesia, Vietnam and China’,
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 17 (6), pp. 479-499.

Wang, J.H.J. and Yeung, H.W.-C. (2000) “Strategies for global competition:
Transnational chemical firms and Singapore’s chemical cluster”, Environment and
Planning A, 32, pp. 847- 869.
Wong, K.W. and Bunnell, T. (2006) “New economy discourse and spaces in Singapore:
A case study of one-north”, Environment and Planning A, 38, pp. 69-83.

Yeung, H.W.C. (2000) “State intervention and neoliberalism in the globalizing world
economy: Lessons from Singapore’s regionalization programme”, The Pacific Review,
13(1), pp. 133-162.

[VIDEO] “A matter of enterprise: Regionalisation: beyond Singapore’s shores”. Series
1, Ep. 3 [On IVLE]

Lecture 10 (23 Oct 2018): Geopolitical Landscapes (Dr. Shaun Lin)
*Woon, C.Y. (2013). “Geopolitical Landscapes of Terror and Security in Singapore”, in
Ho E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old
Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 179-195

*Bin Hassan, M. and Pereire, K.G. (2006). “An Ideological Perspective to Combating
Terrorism- The Singapore Perspective”. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 17(4): 458-477.
Acharya, A. and Acharya, A. (2007). “The Myth of the Second Front: Localizing the
‘War on Terror’ in Southeast Asia”. The Washington Quarterly, 30(4): 75-90.

Febrica, S. (2010). “Securitizing Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Accounting for the
Varying Responses of Singapore and Indonesia”. Asian Survey, 50(3): 569-590.
Tan, A. (2002). “Terrorism in Singapore: Threats and Implications”. Contemporary
Security Policy, 23: 1-18.

Vasu, N. (2008). “(En)countering Terrorism: Multiculturalism and Singapore”. Asian
Ethnicity, 9(1): 17-32.

Lecture 11 (30 Oct 2018): Tourism Landscapes (Dr. Sin Harng Luh)
*Henderson, J.C. (2005). “Planning, changing landscapes and tourism in Singapore”,
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 13(2), pp. 123-135.

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*Sin, H.L. (2013). “Tourism 2015: Making YourSingapore”, in Ho E.L.E., Woon, C.Y.
and Ramdas, K (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New
Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 237-256.

Chang, T.C. and Lim, S.Y. (2004). “Geographical imaginations of ‘New Asia-
Singapore’”, Geografiska Annaler, 86(3), pp. 164-184.

Chang, T. C. and Huang, S. (2011). “Reclaiming the city: Waterfront development in
Singapore”, Urban Studies, 48(10), pp. 2085-2100.

Ong, C. E. (2005) ‘Adventurism: Singapore Adventure Tourists in “Soft” Capitalism’,
In C. Ryan, S. Page and M. Aicken (eds) Taking Tourism to the Limits: Issues, Concepts
and Managerial Perspectives, London: Elsevier, pp. 81-91.

[VIDEO] “Singapore first”. Ep. 4 – Tourism, Channel News Asia [On IVLE] [VIDEO]
“Insight 2006”. Episode 17, Singapore: Asia's Monte Carlo? [On IVLE]

[VIDEO] “A matter of enterprise: Regionalisation: Beyond Singapore’s shores”. Series
1, Ep.3 [On IVLE]

Lecture 12 (6 Nov 2018): Deepavali – NO LECTURE

Lecture 13 (13 Nov 2018): Review Lecture (Dr Sin Harng Luh, A/P Shirlena Huang,
Dr. Shaun Lin)
No more readings