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Responding to Globalization
Selvaraj Velayutham
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Description for Responding to Globalization
Investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity. This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFFS; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
Despite unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, little academic attention has been paid to how governments actively deal with the challenges globalization poses for national identity. This book investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity and the shifting ways in which Singapore has been imagined in official discourses.This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.
Despite unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, little academic attention has been paid to how governments actively deal with the challenges globalization poses for national identity. This book investigates the Singapore Government's approach to the construction of national identity and the shifting ways in which Singapore has been imagined in official discourses.This book focuses on the global/national nexus: the tensions between the necessity to embrace the global to ensure economic survival, yet needing a committed population to support the perpetuation of the nation-state and its economic success.
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789812304216
SKU
V9789812304216
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About Selvaraj Velayutham
Selvaraj Velayutham, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University.
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