caa a22 4500 467898642 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9030-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9030-3 Muzaini Hamzah Department of Geography, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK aut Producing/consuming memoryscapes: the genesis/politics of Second World War commemoration in Singapore [Elektronische Daten] [Hamzah Muzaini] Despite the salience of the Second World War in paving the way for Singapore to attain formal independent status in 1965, it was not until the 1990s that war events were inserted into the state's narratives, and ‘mapped' onto its spaces as visible national fodder to bind citizens together. Since then, memoryscapes in many forms have proliferated over the state's cityscape. After tracing the genesis of official war commemorative gestures within Singapore, the paper examines the ways in which Singaporeans have responded to them. Specifically, the paper argues that, while Singaporeans recognize the importance of remembering the war as nationally significant, this has not translated into any physical attempt or desire—beyond the discursive—to participate in the state's commemorative endeavours. In analyzing factors that may have hindered the actual bodily practice of war remembrance in Singapore, nationalized war memoryscapes are also seen as embodying numerous politics due to tensions arising from a collision between what the state and its people perceive to be ideal means of remembering and representing the war within national discourses in the context of the present. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Commemoration nationallicence Memoryscapes nationallicence Nation-building nationallicence Politics nationallicence Second World War nationallicence Singapore nationallicence GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 211-222 0343-2521 66:3<211 2006 66 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9030-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9030-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Muzaini Hamzah Department of Geography, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 211-222 0343-2521 66:3<211 2006 66 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer