A ghost town called Singapore
The politics of geographic storytelling, from the "wild heart of Saugatuck" to "Singapore Dunes, LLC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas D Grant (0000-0002-0694-2723, University of Chicago), Thomas Grant (The University of Chicago, USA), J Babcock (0000-0002-9264-2873, Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-399 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758241301634 |
| OpenAlex | W4406535898 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
For over 180 years, Singapore, a town buried under the sands on Lake Michigan's shore, has sparked imagination-and controversy. Names and naming are integral to the conflict, revealing competing investments in the site as space, place, property, and land. In this piece, we mobilize Indigenous, Black feminist, and anthropological perspectives to track how competing categorizations of the former town deploy names and naming as centerpieces in acts of geographic storytelling that construct narratives both about and beyond the constructed bounds of a Western Michigan community
Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Storytelling · Visual arts · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |