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Unsafety and Unions in Singapore's state-led industrialization, 1965-1994 by Dobbs, Stephen, Seng Loh, Kah

“…Industrial hazards are a neglected part of the history of Singapore's successful industrialization since independence in 1965. Our paper investigates risk in…”
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Emergencities: Experts, Squatters and Crisis in Post-war Southeast Asia by Seng, Loh Kah

“…Western planning experts, beginning with the United Nations Mission of Experts on Tropical Housing in 1950–1951, undertook major interventions in what they…”
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‘Our lives are bad but our luck is good’: A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore by Seng, Loh Kah

“…This paper examines the social history of individuals with leprosy living in Singapore under the law of compulsory segregation. Using official sources and oral…”
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Emergency Situations, Participation, and Community-based Disaster Responses in Southeast Asia Gray Areas and Causes for Optimism by SENG, LOH KAH

“…Emergency and participation intersect to form the basis of Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (CBDRRM). This article has three aims. First,…”
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Rupture and adaptation: British technical expertise to the Singapore Polytechnic and the transition to a nation-state by Loh, Kah Seng

“…The Singapore Polytechnic underwent a period of both rupture and adaptation as British advisers worked with the post-colonial government to facilitate…”
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Typhoon Ondoy and the Translation of Disaster Expertise in Barangay Banaba, Marikina Valley by SENG, LOH KAH

“…This article investigates community-based disaster responses among informal settlers in a barangay located just outside Metro Manila in the aftermath of…”
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Kampong, fire, nation: Towards a social history of postwar Singapore by Seng, Loh Kah

“…An important but little-studied act in the history of postwar Singapore was played out at the margins of the city. Here, the state was involved in a major…”
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Conflict and Change at the Margins: Emergency Kampong Clearance and the Making of Modern Singapore by Seng, Loh Kah

“…The aim was not, as frequently avowed, merely to raise the people's living standards, but to mould the semi-autonomous residents into model citizens of the…”
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Black Areas: Urban Kampongs and Power Relations in Post-war Singapore Historiography by LOH, Kah Seng

“…By analysing a collection of key texts, this paper examines state-society relations in post-war Singapore in social and spatial terms. It traces the history of…”
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Beyond rubber prices: negotiating the Great Depression in Singapore by Seng, Loh Kah

“…This paper looks at life in Singapore during the Great Depression in the early 1930s from the perspectives of the ordinary people who lived through it. Besides…”
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The Origins of Urban Renewal in Singapore: A Transnational History by Dobbs, Stephen, Loh, Kah Seng

“…This article examines the origins of urban renewal in Singapore through a transnational history lens. It focuses on the role in particular of two United…”
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Ashen History: Narrating the Fire at the Origin of Modern Singapore by Loh, Kah Seng

“…Oral histories of former squatters trace the origins of modern Singapore to its largest and historically most important fire at Bukit Ho Swee on 25 May 1961…”
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Tuberculosis in Singapore: Past and Future by Loh, Kah Seng, Hsu, Li Yang

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Open or Bordered? Singapore, Industrialisation and Malaysian Workers by Dobbs, Stephen, Loh, Kah Seng

“…This article offers a new approach to the study of Singapore history through an interrogation of the city-state's borderedness and openness to Malaysian…”
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Emergency situations, participation, and community-based disaster responses in Southeast Asia: Gray areas and causes for optimism by Loh Kah Seng

“…Emergency and participation intersect to form the basis of Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (CBDRRM). This article has three aims. First,…”
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Emergencities by Loh, Kah Seng

“…Western planning experts, beginning with the United Nations Mission of Experts on Tropical Housing in 1950-1951, undertook major interventions in what they…”
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The Communicable Disease Centre and Challenges in Infectious Disease Management in Singapore by Mohammad Raji, Kymelya Sari, Hsu, Li Yang, Loh, Kah Seng

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Typhoon ondoy and the translation of disaster expertise in barangay Banaba, Marikina valley by Loh Kah Seng

“…This article investigates community-based disaster responses among informal settlers in a barangay located just outside Metro Manila in the aftermath of…”
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'No more road to walk': cultures of heritage and leprosariums in Singapore and Malaysia by Loh, Kah Seng

“…This paper examines how the state, social activists and former sufferers of leprosy participate in an international heritage discourse and how they construct…”
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Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia edited by Laurence Monnais and Harold J. Cook (review) by Kah Seng, Loh

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