Ghostly topographies: landscape and biopower in modern Singapore
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles |
| ANO | 2007 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | cultural geographies |
| ISSN | 1474-4740 |
| E-ISSN | 1477-0881 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474474007072819 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This paper considers the history of a single landscape in the Chinatown district of modern Singapore, one with a complex and uneasy history. This area was formerly home to a number of female labour collectives, bulldozed in 1969 to make way for new development that never arrived. The author attempts to explain this site in reference to a broader politico-ecological history of landscape construction in Singapore, in which a state landscape was constructed that would confine a number of subjects to the fringe of the broader society. Through a number of practices and performances involving ghosts and haunting, it is argued, these landscapes become open to powerful new forms of contestation that evade the techniques of a regime of 'biopower'.