Singaporean Creatures

Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Ruizhi Choo, Anthony Medrano, Miles Alexander Powell, Esmond Soh, Nicole Tarulevicz, Jennifer Yip, Faizah Zakaria, Timothy Barnard

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An analysis of the human-animal relationship in post-colonial Singapore.Modern Singapore is the Garden City, a biophilic urban space that includes a variety of animals, from mosquitoes to humans, even polar bears. Singaporean Creatures brings together historians to contemplate this human-animal relationship and how it has shaped society—socially, economically, politically, and environmentally. It is a work of historical and ecological analysis, in which various institutions, perspectives, and events involving animals provide insight into how the larger society has been formed and developed over the last half-century. The interaction of all Singaporean creatures thus provides a lens through which we can understand the creation of a modern and urban nation-state, shaped by the forces of the Anthropocene.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-31
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagNUS Press
ISBN9789813252387

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List of ImagesIntroduction: Humans and Other Animals in a Singaporean AnthropoceneChapter 1: Tilapia, Travel and the Making of a Singaporean CreatureChapter 2: One of the Main Drawbacks of Tropical LivingChapter 3: Mosquitoes, Public Health and the Construction of a Modern SocietyChapter 4: Fear, Fascination and Fantasy in the Cultural History of CrocodilesChapter 5: Too Much Monkey BusinessChapter 6: Songbirds in a Garden CityChapter 7: Marine Life in Service of the State at Public Aquariums and Oceanariums in SingaporeChapter 8: Nation, Nature and the Singapore Zoological Gardens, 1973-2018List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“A lively and persuasive account of Singapore’s relationship with animals from the mid-20th century onwards…. Thoroughly intriguing and readable, Singaporean Creatures is also a worthy 'sequel' to Barnard’s earlier book Imperial Creatures, which explored Singapore’s relationship with other animals within an earlier time frame of 1819 to 1942.” Straits Times“This is a thorough account of multidisciplinary research in the post-colonial world and capitalist social engineering on a grand scale.”Leonardo Reviews