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  • RACE AND STATE IN INDEPENDENT SINGAPORE 1965–1990
    JOHN CLAMMER
    First published in 1998, this volume explores Singapore as an ideal case study for the examination of the management of postcoloniality, social diversity and the pursuit of economic growth with ethnic harmony. Singapore has, since independence, evolved a unique mix of state directed capitalism, revamped Confucianism and a social order based on an ideology of multiracialism. The...

    $980.00

  • ART, CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN CLAMMER
    Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates...

    $1,560.00

  • VISION AND SOCIETY
    JOHN CLAMMER
    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself. Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations bet...

    $1,200.00

  • JAPAN IN SINGAPORE
    EYAL BEN-ARI / JOHN CLAMMER
    The Japanese impact on Southeast Asia has been profound, not only in terms of economic presence, but equally in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence. Food, fashion, TV, film, religion, sport, popular music, ideas about management and social relationships and even local literatures have been profoundly impacted by the flows of cultural influences from Japan. This v...

    $800.00

  • DIFFERENCE & MODERNITY
    JOHN CLAMMER
    First Published in 1995. The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop in...

    $1,320.00

  • DIFFERENCE AND MODERNITY
    JOHN CLAMMER
    The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledg...

    $1,320.00