Kampong, fire, nation: Towards a social history of postwar Singapore

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 campaign to socialise the ‘squatters’ of urban kampong into citizens of a high modernist state. The fire hazard in these settlements also contrib...

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Published in:	Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore) Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 613 - 643
Main Author:	Seng, Loh Kah
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-10-2009
Subjects:	Analysis Annual reports Asia Asian history Cities Citizenship City councils Cold War Communism Ethnology Fire Fire hazards Fire services Fires Geography Historians Historical source materials Historiography History House fires Houses Housing Idealism Labor unions Low income groups Modernization Nation building Policy analysis Political activism Political history Political Socialization Politics Public housing Reconstruction Singapore Singapore history Social change Social Development Social history Social housing Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity Social structure and social relations Sources and methods Squatters State-society relations Transnationalism Urban communities Urban history War World War II Southeast Asia Singapore Social development Social history Squatter Historiography Fire Post-war period Citizen Politics Socialization Hazard
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