Managing Chineseness : identity and ethnic management in Singapore / Daphnee Lee.
2017
DS610.25.C5
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Title
Managing Chineseness : identity and ethnic management in Singapore / Daphnee Lee.
Author
Lee, Daphnee, author.
ISBN
9781137582584 (electronic book)
1137582588 (electronic book)
9781137582577
113758257X
1137582588 (electronic book)
9781137582577
113758257X
Imprint
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
DS610.25.C5
Dewey Decimal Classification
959.57004951
Summary
This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of 'Chineseness'. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as 'the only true Leninist project that has survived', and Lee revisits the Singapore 'social laboratory', addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China's rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occur in the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place? The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 21, 2016)
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Frontiers of globalization series.
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Table of Contents
1. Managing Chineseness as Identity Grafting
2. Sleeping Fishing Village overrun by Immigrants?
3. Typologizing Chineseness
4. The Complex
5. The Boys wear High Heels with Platforms
6. Sunshine and Bananas and Coconuts
7. Singapore Society in Transition, Really?
8. Indeed .
2. Sleeping Fishing Village overrun by Immigrants?
3. Typologizing Chineseness
4. The Complex
5. The Boys wear High Heels with Platforms
6. Sunshine and Bananas and Coconuts
7. Singapore Society in Transition, Really?
8. Indeed .