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Category: Academic Views

Who is NUS trying to protect? Political leaders need to answer


Academic Views, Editorials

Only ministers can answer whether NUS is right or wrong in its judgment that there will be a political price to pay if university administrators do not properly screen “controversial” or “sensitive” events.

2025-01-26

“At his mercy?” Implications of Trump’s policies for Singapore’s economy


Academic Views

LINDA LIM (University of Michigan) explains the risks and uncertainties facing Singapore and why these make a rethink of its economic model more urgent.

2024-11-17

Rethinking Singapore’s economic model


Academic Views

Economists LINDA LIM and PANG ENG FONG welcome Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s call for a “major reset” in Singapore’s policies. They argue that the country’s “extensive growth model” is inefficient, inequitable and unsustainable.

2024-10-15

Islamic feminism and gender justice: more relevant than ever in an era of rising conservatism and authoritarianism


Academic Views

MOHAMED IMRAN MOHAMED TAIB and NURUL FADIAH JOHARI discuss the deep and distinguished roots of women’s rights in the Islamic tradition. This article is an edited excerpt of their chapter in the book, Why Not? Thinking About Singapore’s Tomorrow, published by World Scientific.

2024-08-26

Patriarchy and politics: Censorship of the letter


Academic Views

MATILDA GABRIELPILLAI traces the ups and downs of Singapore women’s movement. This article is an edited excerpt of her chapter in the book, Why Not? Thinking About Singapore’s Tomorrow, newly published by World Scientific.

2024-08-19

Want to shift mindsets? Put a value to household work


Academic Views

EUSTON QUAH and TAN JUN RUI argue that proper accounting for the value of household production would help the government devise policies more responsive to people’s needs.

2024-08-14

Contested shrines: Keramat in Singapore’s Tomorrowland


Academic Views

WILLIAM GIBSON, author of the first scholarly book-length work on keramat in Singapore, explains the often‑tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times.

2024-08-04

Junior Scholar Seminar: Notions of death in 1950s Malay magazines


Academic Views, Events

Cultural historian Pow Jun Kai is our third presenter for 2024. His presentation focuses on the circulation of knowledge about death and its eschatology in Malay print publications of the 1950s.

2024-06-08

AcademiaSG submission to the UN special rapporteur on the right to education


Academic Views, Editorials

For her report to the Human Rights Council on academic freedom, the Special Rapporteur invited contributions from

2024-06-01

How the Wong Government can show conviction in its vision, and confidence in itself and the people


Academic Views, Editorials

As Singaporean academics, we have a professional as well as civic interest in spaces for public deliberation. We hope to see the state widening these spaces, and the people enlivening them for the public good. – From the Editors, AcademiaSG

2024-05-15

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