Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes : : A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society / / Anoma Pieris.
During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transpo...
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Pieris, Anoma, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes : A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society / Anoma Pieris. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (416 p.) : 30 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Writing Past Colonialism Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Divided Landscapes -- CHAPTER 3. The Colonial Prison -- CHAPTER 4. Hidden Hands -- CHAPTER 5. The Perils of Association -- CHAPTER 6. The Battle for the City -- CHAPTER 7. The Citadel -- CHAPTER 8. Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company's Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions.A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore's colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison's development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident.Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Convict labor Singapore History. Prisoners Singapore History. Prisons Singapore History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824832216 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824862831 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824862831 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824862831/original |
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