Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2001
Abstract
The small nation-state of Singapore has increasingly been referred to in the popular media as the Intelligent Island of the future. With significant state investment in the promotion and dissemination of information-communications technology and attendant social ramifications, this has become an area that can no longer be ignored or taken for granted. This article intends to map the conditions of possibility on which Singapore can be conceived of as an Intelligent Island, in situating the role of information technology and Intelligent Island discourse within the discourses of postcoloniality, technocapitalism, late modernity, and globalization. In particular, this article attempts to show how, in Intelligent Island discourse, the processes of the construction of a Singaporean nation are intricately linked to the shift in political discourse from mobilizing a rhetoric of crisis to one of utopianism.
Keywords
Intelligent Island, technology, discourse, nation-building, crisis, utopia
Discipline
International Relations | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society
Volume
21
Issue
3
First Page
175
Last Page
192
ISSN
0270-4676
Identifier
10.1177/027046760102100303
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
LIM, Alwyn.(2001). Intelligent island discourse: Singapore’s discursive negotiation with technology. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 21(3), 175-192.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2477
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/027046760102100303