Singapore, the state, and decolonial spatiality
Singapore, the state, and decolonial spatiality
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新加坡、国家和非殖民空间性
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2015
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Daniel P. S. Goh
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Daniel P. S. Goh
新加坡是亚洲城市文化和政治经济的成功典范，这种说法令人不快。我曾认为这是一个混合身份认同和政治实践的后殖民问题。但在我试图研究新加坡社会的过程中，从街头嘉年华到流行宗教，我最终面对的是国家在话语材料和物质空间本身中的知性合理化。当我专注于国家及其档案时，我最终会看到社会及其文化被转录、合理化和空间化。我们在亚洲文化研究中的认知盲点是国家的殖民性及其空间性。新加坡之所以例外，是因为国家将亚洲发展主义的城市逻辑推向了尾声，将丰富的文化生活世界扁平化到赤裸裸的生活空间，从而在国家自己对美好生活的现代想象中重建社会。尽管全球化非属地化，但国家仍在继续这样做。新加坡模式提供了保持殖民和属地化的前景。作为回应，我们需要新的非殖民主义空间方法，让城市草根阶层和知识分子罢工参与进来。
The proposition that Singapore is a successful Asian model of urban culture and political economy is a discomforting one. I had thought this was a postcolonial problem of hybrid identity making and political practice. But in my attempts to study Singapore society, from street carnivals to popular religion, I have ended up facing the state’s knowing rationalizations in the discursive materials and material space itself. When I focus on the state and its archive, I end up looking at society and its culture transcribed, rationalized and spatialized. Our epistemic blind spot in Asian cultural studies is the coloniality of the state and its spatiality. Singapore is exceptional because the state took the urban logics of Asian developmentalism to its conclusion, flattening rich cultural lifeworlds to spaces of bare life so as to reconstruct society in the state’s own modern imaginary of the good life. The state continues to do this in spite of the deterritorialization of globalization. The Singapore model offers the promise of remaining colonial and territorializing. In response, we need new methods of decolonial spatiality involving the urban grassroots and the intellectual strike.