Report: Review of academic research on COVID-19 in Singapore
There have been more than 800 academic publications across multiple disciplines focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. Our report reviews this literature.
Category: Academic Views
Hiding in Plain Sight: S. Rajaratnam and Intellectual History in Singapore
In our first AcademiaSG Lecture, PHILIP HOLDEN retrieves PAP founding father S. Rajaratnam’s early anticolonial thought and discusses its relevance for contemporary discussions of race and identity. Watch the video.
Disability Studies can open up a dialogue that fosters inclusion
KUANSONG VICTOR ZHUANG, MENG EE WONG, and DAN GOODLEY make the case for disability studies in Singapore.
The imagined audience’s role in the performance of everyday television censorship
Studying television production in Singapore, SIAO YUONG FONG explores the often-invisible ideological work that goes into maintaining regime stability.
Universities in Singapore: climbing world rankings while reining in academic freedom
A new book examines academic freedom in Asia. CHERIAN GEORGE, CHONG JA IAN and SHANNON ANG summarise their chapter on the situation in Singapore.
New volume focusing on academic freedom in Asia includes chapter on Singapore
This new volume is pubished by Columbia University Press as part of the Association for Asian Studies’ Asia Shorts series. Book launch webinar on 1 December (Singapore time).
When to stop learning from Singapore — an Australian perspective
HALLAM STEVENS (James Cook University) cautions that Australia should resist what Singapore’s high-tech governance model offers — not just tech but also connected legal, financial, and political mechanisms for managing society.
Inequality and social good: A new culture of shared wellbeing requires reforming a system that promotes individualism
If Singapore’s leaders are seeking a new social compact for a changed world, they would need to embark on radical reforms to redress the balance between self-interest and solidarity, argues sociologist TEO YOU YENN.
Doubly minoritised: Indianness in Singapore and xenophobia as racism
In an excerpt from the new book, Brown is Redacted, sociologist Laavanya Kathiravelu explains the challenges ethnic Indians face in claiming legitimate belonging to the Singapore nation.
Disinformation in China-US rivalry: a case study
AcademiaSG editors CHONG JA IAN and LINDA LIM relate how their interview with a Hong Kong newspaper was distorted by a PRC news outlet. One year ago, in October 2021, the government passed FICA, the Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act (FICA), two years after passing POFMA, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), in […]