Going global and staying local: nation-building discourses in Singapore's cultural policies |
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Authors: | Pi-Chun Chang |
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Institution: | 1. Department of East Asian Studies , National Taiwan Normal University , Taipei City 106 , Taiwan (ROC) pcc@ntnu.edu.tw |
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Abstract: | Utilizing the ‘Singapore Story’, this study will explore cultural policies implemented and aimed towards cosmopolitanism, and how these policies have affected the international arts scene, which has led to a polarization within the community by excluding the elderly and disadvantaged members of the population from participating. Singapore's cultural policy has served the function of nation-building and at the same time goes with globalisation and thus calls for constructing a cosmopolitan yet patriotic citizen in terms of identity. This article considers the role of nationalism as a guide to the understanding of cultural policy discourses and argues that a top-down cosmopolitan construction of national identity in cultural policy discourses lacks representation of people's daily life. |
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Keywords: | cultural policy nationalism Singaporean identity nation-building cosmopolitanism Singapore Story |
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