Overseas Singaporeans, Coming-of-Career Narratives, and the Corporate Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806735 |
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| Authors | Cheryl Narumi Naruse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-167 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2014.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W1967932295 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
What do corporate subjectivities look like when the corporation is seen as the nation-state? This essay explores the notion of corporate personhood through an examination of the conjunction of neoliberal, corporate, and national ideologies, whose typically distinct genealogies converge in the Singaporean context. Through a reading of Conversations on Coming Home: 20 Singaporeans Share Their Stories , a booklet specifically designed to recruit Singaporeans living abroad to return home, I propose the notion of "coming-of-career" stories as a critical term for understanding the ways lives are constructed and valued according to neoliberal ideals
Corporation · Ideology · Linguistics · Narrative · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Highly cited | No |
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