{"id":17383,"date":"2017-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/01\/04\/urban-dreams-in-an-island-nation-city-state\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:47:00","slug":"urban-dreams-in-an-island-nation-city-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/01\/04\/urban-dreams-in-an-island-nation-city-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Dreams in an Island-Nation-City-State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Urban Jungle” from SRN’s Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To kickstart the new year, we feature Prof Brenda Yeoh, Dr Theodora Lam and Alice Chen\u2019s book chapter, \u201cUrban Dreams in an Island-Nation-City-State\u201d from Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia (2016). In this season of resolution and retrospection, Prof Yeoh et al. remind us that our hopes and dreams contribute to Singapore\u2019s cosmopolitan dream. Specifically, the authors necessitate rethinking migration to turn the global city dream into reality.<\/p>\n

Taking a gander at history, the\u00a0authors attribute Singapore\u2019s early success to migrants. Slightly more than half a century later, origins as a migrant state are cast aside and migrants are the \u201cother\u201d. Furore on Singapore\u2019s migration policies cast a gloom over achieving cosmopolitanism and maintaining Singapore\u2019s economic success and cultural vibrancy. Prof Yeoh et al attribute the resistance to the insufficiently crystallised national identity since Singapore\u2019s founding. Securing commonality will only prove more trying as Singapore attempts to strike a balance between projecting a global city-state image and developing a cohesive nation-state. The authors conclude that the only way forward is to focus on the commonalties of “human struggles, aspirations and endeavours”. Armed with the boundless recognition of the human spirit, we can move beyond borders to achieve a truly cosmopolitan Island-Nation-City-State.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To find out more about the book, click here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.selectbooks.com.sg\/getTitle.aspx?SBNum=058828<\/a><\/p>\n

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To kickstart the new year, we feature Prof Brenda Yeoh, Dr Theodora Lam and Alice Chen\u2019s book chapter, \u201cUrban Dreams in an Island-Nation-City-State\u201d from Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia (2016). In this season of resolution and retrospection, Prof Yeoh et al. remind us that our hopes and dreams contribute to Singapore\u2019s cosmopolitan dream. Specifically, the authors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28031,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions\/28031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}