Loh Kah Seng
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loh Kah Seng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loh Kah |
| FAMILY NAME | Seng |
| SIGNATURE | SENG L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Speaking Truth to Power
Reviewed by: Speaking Truth to Power: Singapore’s Pioneer Public Servants ed. by Loke Hoe Yeong Loh Kah Seng Speaking Truth to Power: Singapore’s Pioneer Public Servants, edited by Loke Hoe Yeong. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020, 308 pp, ISBN 9811211515 This collection of edited transcripts of oral history interviews of Singapore’s top civil servants may be read one of two ways. Plausibly, it is a look at governance from the vantage point of el…
Kerri A. Inglis, Ma'i Lepera
Squatters into Citizens
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Squatters into Citizens
Fire: A Catalyst for Modern Singapore 2. Hopeful Migrants in the Urban Kampongs 3. A 'Black Area' 4. 'A Roar from the Oppressed People' 5. Fires and Experiments with Emergency Housing 6. The Inferno 7. State of Emergency 8. Nine Months 9. Bukit Ho Swee Estate 10. Memory, Myth and Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
1. Remembering Violence 2. The Colonial Setting and Outbreak of Riots 3. Proscription 4. Surveillance 5. Self-criticism 6. Reconciliation 7. Reform. Conclusion: The aftermath of Violence
Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore
This paper examines the struggle between the state and urban kampong population over the form and content of the 'mobile city' in postwar Singapore. As large numbers of low‐income Chinese moved into an expanding belt of informal settlements on the urban periphery, there emerged a semi‐autonomous way of life, characterised by underemployment and co‐existence with free‐ranging pigs and poultry, which were deeply abhorrent to both the British coloni…
Conflict and Change at the Margins
History, Memory, and Identity in Modern Singapore
In 2006–2007, I interviewed elderly Singaporeans on their experiences of resettlement from an urban kampong (village) to emergency public housing after a great fire in 1961. I learned much about the lives of semiautonomous dwellers in an unauthorized settlement and the individual and social transformation following their rehousing. My informants also highlighted what the experiences meant to them and their identity in a modern city-state. This pa…
Kampong , fire, nation
An important but little-studied act in the history of postwar Singapore was played out at the margins of the city. Here, the state was involved in a major campaign to socialise the ‘squatters’ of urban kampong into citizens of a high modernist state. The fire hazard in these settlements also contributed significantly to the process, as the residents were mobilised into fire-fighting squads and politicians acted on behalf of the victims of inferno…
Beyond Rubber Prices
This paper looks at life in Singapore during the Great Depression in the early 1930s from the perspectives of the ordinary people who lived through it. Besides discussing the slump's impact on businesses, wages and employment, it examines how effectively people responded to the crisis. Their distress was alleviated by immigration controls and a fall in the cost of living at the societal level, and also by mutual help, based on family and kinship …
Conflict and Change at the Margins
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
1. Remembering Violence 2. The Colonial Setting and Outbreak of Riots 3. Proscription 4. Surveillance 5. Self-criticism 6. Reconciliation 7. Reform. Conclusion: The aftermath of Violence
History, Memory, and Identity in Modern Singapore
In 2006–2007, I interviewed elderly Singaporeans on their experiences of resettlement from an urban kampong (village) to emergency public housing after a great fire in 1961. I learned much about the lives of semiautonomous dwellers in an unauthorized settlement and the individual and social transformation following their rehousing. My informants also highlighted what the experiences meant to them and their identity in a modern city-state. This pa…
Squatters into Citizens
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Kampong , fire, nation
An important but little-studied act in the history of postwar Singapore was played out at the margins of the city. Here, the state was involved in a major campaign to socialise the ‘squatters’ of urban kampong into citizens of a high modernist state. The fire hazard in these settlements also contributed significantly to the process, as the residents were mobilised into fire-fighting squads and politicians acted on behalf of the victims of inferno…
Beyond Rubber Prices
This paper looks at life in Singapore during the Great Depression in the early 1930s from the perspectives of the ordinary people who lived through it. Besides discussing the slump's impact on businesses, wages and employment, it examines how effectively people responded to the crisis. Their distress was alleviated by immigration controls and a fall in the cost of living at the societal level, and also by mutual help, based on family and kinship …
Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore
This paper examines the struggle between the state and urban kampong population over the form and content of the 'mobile city' in postwar Singapore. As large numbers of low‐income Chinese moved into an expanding belt of informal settlements on the urban periphery, there emerged a semi‐autonomous way of life, characterised by underemployment and co‐existence with free‐ranging pigs and poultry, which were deeply abhorrent to both the British coloni…
Beyond Rubber Prices
This paper looks at life in Singapore during the Great Depression in the early 1930s from the perspectives of the ordinary people who lived through it. Besides discussing the slump's impact on businesses, wages and employment, it examines how effectively people responded to the crisis. Their distress was alleviated by immigration controls and a fall in the cost of living at the societal level, and also by mutual help, based on family and kinship …
Conflict and Change at the Margins
History, Memory, and Identity in Modern Singapore
In 2006–2007, I interviewed elderly Singaporeans on their experiences of resettlement from an urban kampong (village) to emergency public housing after a great fire in 1961. I learned much about the lives of semiautonomous dwellers in an unauthorized settlement and the individual and social transformation following their rehousing. My informants also highlighted what the experiences meant to them and their identity in a modern city-state. This pa…
Kampong , fire, nation
An important but little-studied act in the history of postwar Singapore was played out at the margins of the city. Here, the state was involved in a major campaign to socialise the ‘squatters’ of urban kampong into citizens of a high modernist state. The fire hazard in these settlements also contributed significantly to the process, as the residents were mobilised into fire-fighting squads and politicians acted on behalf of the victims of inferno…
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
1. Remembering Violence 2. The Colonial Setting and Outbreak of Riots 3. Proscription 4. Surveillance 5. Self-criticism 6. Reconciliation 7. Reform. Conclusion: The aftermath of Violence
Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore
This paper examines the struggle between the state and urban kampong population over the form and content of the 'mobile city' in postwar Singapore. As large numbers of low‐income Chinese moved into an expanding belt of informal settlements on the urban periphery, there emerged a semi‐autonomous way of life, characterised by underemployment and co‐existence with free‐ranging pigs and poultry, which were deeply abhorrent to both the British coloni…
Squatters into Citizens
Fire: A Catalyst for Modern Singapore 2. Hopeful Migrants in the Urban Kampongs 3. A 'Black Area' 4. 'A Roar from the Oppressed People' 5. Fires and Experiments with Emergency Housing 6. The Inferno 7. State of Emergency 8. Nine Months 9. Bukit Ho Swee Estate 10. Memory, Myth and Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index
Kerri A. Inglis, Ma'i Lepera
Squatters into Citizens
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Speaking Truth to Power
Reviewed by: Speaking Truth to Power: Singapore’s Pioneer Public Servants ed. by Loke Hoe Yeong Loh Kah Seng Speaking Truth to Power: Singapore’s Pioneer Public Servants, edited by Loke Hoe Yeong. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020, 308 pp, ISBN 9811211515 This collection of edited transcripts of oral history interviews of Singapore’s top civil servants may be read one of two ways. Plausibly, it is a look at governance from the vantage point of el…
Political science (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)