Special Focus
DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY: NGO POLITICS IN SINGAPORE
Editors Terence Chong James Gomez Lenore Lyons Contents iii
Volume 20, Number 2 (October 2005)
CONTENTS
Articles
Moving Beyond the OB Markers: Rethinking the Space of Civil Society in Singapore Lenore Lyons and James Gomez 119 Gestural Politics: Civil Society in “New” Singapore Terence Lee 132 Considering “Green” Practices: NGOs and Singapore’s Emergent Environmental-Political Landscape Kersty Hobson 155 International NGOs: Filling the “Gap” in Singapore’s Civil Society James Gomez 177 Transient Workers Count Too? The Intersection of Citizenship and Gender in Singapore’s Civil Society Lenore Lyons 208 State–Civil Society Relations and Tourism: Singaporeanizing Tourists, Touristifying Singapore Ooi Can Seng 249 Civil Society in Singapore: Popular Discourses and Concepts
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Chairperson: K. Kesavapany Editors: Terence Chong, Russell H.K. Heng, Lee Hock Guan, Ooi Kee Beng Production Editor: Tan Kim Keow
International Advisory Members
Charnvit Kasetsiri, Thammasat University, Thailand Chua Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, Singapore Maria Serena I. Diokno, University of the Philippines, Philippines Robert Hefner, Boston University, United States Joel S. Kahn, La Trobe University, Australia Ben Kerkvliet, Australian National University, Australia Victor T. King, University of Hull, United Kingdom Francis Loh Kok Wah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, West Malaysia Otto van den Muijzenberg, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, Netherlands James Scott, Yale University, United States Takashi Shiraishi, Kyoto University, Japan Taufik Abdullah, LIPI, Indonesia ISEAS Michael Leifer Memorial Prize
We take great pride in announcing that Chan Kwok Bun and Seet Chia Sing have just won the ISEAS Michael Leifer Memorial Prize for their article “Migrant Family Drama Revisited: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore”, published in the October 2003 issue of SOJOURN. The prize worth S$3,000 is given once every two years to the best scholarly work published in any of the three ISEAS academic journals. It was set up to commemorate the late Professor Michael Leifer of the London School of Economics whose works have represented the best of scholarship on Southeast Asia. This is the first time the award is given. That a SOJOURN article has won the prize convinces the editors that the journal is receiving high-quality contributions. Our journal looks forward to producing yet more award-winning articles.
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