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Re-envisioning the global city's future: Global city futures: desire and development in Singapore, by Natalie Oswin. Natalie Oswin explores this paradox, through the lens of her own experience living in Singapore for many years and why, ultimately, Oswin and her partner chose to leave and relocate to Montreal. Next, Oswin focuses more squarely on the evolution of state rhetoric over homosexuality specifically, and the nature of authoritarian law constantly made and remade through speech soundbites of contemporary leaders like Goh Tok Chong, the Prime Minister during Singapore's culturally-pivotal 1990s. Third, Oswin deconstructs laws like 377A of Singapore's Penal Code, known as the "anti sodomy law", which she displays as a "colonial trace" with residues of pre-and-post colonial Singapore linked and mutually - reinforcing. [Extracted from the article] |
