The politics of space: changing discourses on Chinese burial grounds in post-war Singapore

Auteurs :
YEOH, B.S.A.
TAN BOON HUI,

Description :
In the context of the need to reconstruct a war-torn country in the 1950s and later the pressing demands of nation-building in the 1960s, the problem of Chinese burial grounds was constructed as the need to release sterilized land for development within the planning discourse. The Chinese community advanced the view that they were sacred spaces situated within the discourse of geomancy. With the independence the discourses were embedded in a field of power relations.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 1995, vol. 21, n°. 2, p. 184-201, Collation : Illustration

Date :
1995

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press