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  • Her World, Women and Fashion in Singapore 1974-1989

    Accidental Career Girl to Working Mother of the Year

    by Dr Nadya Wang ...
    Series series Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
    Between 1974 and 1989, significant changes were taking place in the lives of Singaporean women and in their local fashion industry. These shifts were not only reflected in but actively shaped by the magazine Her World.In Her World*, Women and Fashion in Singapore*, Nadya Wang uses dress as a lens through which to view fragments of the magazine over 15 years. Advocating for a new and decentred ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Brown is Redacted. Reflecting on Race in Singapore

    Edited by Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru, Myle Yan Tay ...
    Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we think we know about the lived experiences of minority-raced people in Singapore. Inspired by Brown Is Haram, a performance-lecture on minority-race narratives staged at The Substation in 2021, this anthology reflects on how brownness is constructed, sidelined, but also celebrated in this nation-state. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Our Voices

    Indigeneity and Architecture

    by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...
    Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple Indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors from Aotearoa NZ, Canada, Australia, and the USA explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by Indigenous values and identities. The lack of publications to date offering ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Growing Up in Transit

    The Politics of Belonging at an International School

    by Danau Tanu ...
    “[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social AnthropologyIn this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Seductions of Place

    Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Space, Place, and Sex

    Geographies of Sexualities

    by Robyn Longhurst, Lynda Johnston ...
    Series series Why of Where
    This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Queer Singapore

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore’s current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Truth about Nature

    Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism

    by Bram Büscher ...
    How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous?The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Our Voices II

    The DE-colonial Project

    by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...
    Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tourism, Culture and Development

    Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia

    by Dr. Stroma Cole ...
    Series Book 12 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Can tourism help a poor remote community to develop? How much does tourism change a village? How can a village have the benefits tourism offers without the problems it can cause? These are the questions that lie at the core of this text. Using an anthropologist’s eye and a high degree of trust, this book uncovers the story of tourism development in two small villages on a remote island of Eastern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman's Face To Change In Singapore

    by Kanwaljit Soin, Margaret Thomas ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years; how women, from all sectors of society, have helped to shape the Singapore we know today. The 31 chapters, some with a more academic slant, others with a distinctly personal tone, reflect the rich diversity and depth of women ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore

    by Lily Lee Lee Kong, Vineeta Sinha ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD