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Title: | If Singapore is a garden city, who are its gardeners? | Authors: | Zahirah Suhaimi | Keywords: | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Discourse analysis DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social structure DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Abstract: | This paper discusses the relations between state, society and environment by conceptualising the urban environment of Singapore, the Garden City, as a cultural domain (re)produced by interactive processes between these relations. I take a critical cultural approach in analyzing the dominant discourse surrounding the Garden City as represented by a sample of newspaper articles from Singapore’s dominant print media, The Straits Times. Through ethnographic content analysis (ECA), I track the metasemiotic discourse of environmentality and extract significant emergent themes and using critical discourse analysis (CDA) I examine the recontextualisations of environmentality within these themes. In my analysis, I have found that even within dominant discourse, metasemiotic discourses become recontextualised to convey nuanced, rather than ideologically distilled, messages. The documentation of textured interaction within a hegemonic discursive space, I argue, highlights the capacity for ideological resistance for negotiating the environmentality governing the nation. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51701 | Schools: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rights: | Nanyang Technological University | Fulltext Permission: | restricted | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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