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.
Our Junior Scholar Seminar features Goh Wei Hao, a PhD candidate in King’s College London, on the impact of a month-long experiment in 1988.
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.
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.
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.
For her report to the Human Rights Council on academic freedom, the Special Rapporteur invited contributions from
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
Thum Ping Tjin explains the “Mayalan Left” and its relevance to modern day Singapore.
Academics, artists, activists, journalists and others interested in “Knowledge Praxis” are taking part in our conference on 6-7 May 2024.
A new series of personal essays by established scholars recounting the organisational and political constraints they have faced when working on and in Singapore. Featuring: Linda Lim, Kevin Tan, Teo You Yenn, and others.
