{"id":32942,"date":"2024-01-25T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=32942"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:05:32","slug":"singaporean-creatures-histories-of-humans-and-other-animals-in-the-garden-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2024\/01\/25\/singaporean-creatures-histories-of-humans-and-other-animals-in-the-garden-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has been touted as one of the world\u2019s most well-planned cities, with a focus on not only public infrastructure but also on its natural environment. As envisioned by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore has transformed into \u2018a city in a garden\u2019, a unique urban setting that accommodates a diverse range of inhabitants, from mosquitoes to humans to polar bears. Singapore\u2019s urban model provides insights into how such human-animal interactions have functioned and specifically, raises questions about how this cohabitation has influenced Singaporean society.<\/p>\n<p>These questions are explored in <em>Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City<\/em> (NUS Press, 2024), edited by Associate Professor Timothy P. Barnard (NUS History). A\/P Barnard collates insights from various institutions and disciplines, employing both historical and ecological analysis. The book focuses on events surrounding human-animal interactions and studies them in detail to understand how these interactions have influenced Singapore\u2019s urban planning and development.<\/p>\n<p>Through this book, A\/P Barnard, who is also a contributor, intends to show animals have played an active role in the development of Singapore, as opposed to passive objects within Singapore\u2019s ecosystem. The book also provides perspectives on Singapore\u2019s urban future and how these human-animal interactions will continue to influence it.<\/p>\n<p>NUS Press and the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum are holding a book launch for <em>Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City<\/em> on Jan 27 (Saturday) at 2:00 PM. The book launch will be at the LKCNHM Learning Lab. The book&#8217;s editor, A\/P Barnard, will be accompanied by contributors Assistant Professor Anthony Medrano (Yale-NUS Environmental Studies), Assistant Professor Faizah Zakaria (NUS Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies), and Esmond Soh (NTU History), as well as commentator Martyn Low (LKCNHM Biodiversity Histories).<\/p>\n<p>Register for the book launch here: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdaHCabRfILQIjD5403vCd7i380VWb3oAEDSx30TjP-wLHkpA\/viewform\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdaHCabRfILQIjD5403vCd7i380VWb3oAEDSx30TjP-wLHkpA\/viewform<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pre-order the book here: <a href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/singaporean-creatures\">https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/singaporean-creatures<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32943\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/01\/Singaporean-Creatures-e1706156056302-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u2018A white bengal tiger, featured in the Singapore Zoological Gardens\u2019 by Clare Yong from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has been touted as one of the world\u2019s most well-planned cities, with a focus on not only public infrastructure but also on its natural environment. As envisioned by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore has transformed into \u2018a city in a garden\u2019, a unique urban setting that accommodates a diverse range of inhabitants, from mosquitoes to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2024\/01\/25\/singaporean-creatures-histories-of-humans-and-other-animals-in-the-garden-city\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":32943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","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":"set","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-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-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-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-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-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-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4538,4535,4529,4606,4609,4536,4604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-malay-studies","category-news","category-research","category-singapore-research-nexus","category-southeast-asian-studies","category-visible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942"}],"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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32944,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions\/32944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}