Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789813252387)

An analysis of the human-animal relationship in post-colonial Singapore.

Modern Singapore is the Garden City, a biophilic urban space that includes a variety of animals, from mosquitoes to humans, even polar bears. Singaporean Creatures brings together historians to contemplate this human-animal relationship and how it has shaped society--socially, economically, politically, and environmentally. It is a work of historical and ecological analysis, in which various institutions, perspectives, and events involving animals provide insight into how the larger society has been formed and developed over the last half-century. The interaction of all Singaporean creatures thus provides a lens through which we can understand the creation of a modern and urban nation-state, shaped by the forces of the Anthropocene.

Author: Timothy Barnard
ISBN-10: 9813252383
ISBN-13: 9789813252387
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback