Bulletin n. 1/2013 | ||
June 2013 | ||
Chang Pi-Chun |
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Going global and staying local: nation-building discourses in Singapore's cultural policies | ||
in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , Volume 19, Issue 6 , 2012 , 691-707 | ||
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. | ||