Title: Paths not taken : political pluralism in post-war Singapore /
Authors: Barr, Michael D.; Trocki, Carl A.
Publisher: NUS Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Cultural pluralism Singapore History Congresses.; Social movements Singapore History Congresses.; Singapore Politics and government Congresses.
Abstract: This title will remind older Singaporeans of ages from their past while providing a younger generation with a novel perspective of their country's past struggles. It reveals a complex situation which gives weight to the middle years of the 20th century as a period that offered real altenatives.
Contents: Part 1. Opening New Paths -- Imperial Subjects, Straits Citizens: Anglophone Asians and the Struggle for Political Rights in Inter-War Singapore / Chua Ai Lin -- Internationalism and Political Pluralism in Singapore, 1950-1963 / Sunil S. Amrith -- Part 2. Party Politics -- The United Front Strategy of the Malayan Communist Party in Singapore, 1950s-1960s / C.C. Chin -- Chinese Merchants in Politics: The Democratic Party in the 1955 Legislative Assembly Election / Sikko Visscher -- Winning and Losing Malay Support: PAP-Malay Community Relations, 1950s and 1960s / Lily Zubaidah Rahim -- David Marshall and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Singapore / Carl A. Trocki -- Part 3. Activists and Popular Movements Malay Cosmopolitan Activism in Post-War Singapore / Timothy P. Barnard and Jan van der Putten -- Civil Society and the Malay Education Council \ E. Kay Gillis -- All Quiet on Jurong Road: Nanyang University and Radical Vision in Singapore / Yao Souchou -- The Young Pathfinders: Portrayal of Student Political Activism / Huang Jianli -- The Left-Wing Trade Unions in Singapore, 1945-1970 / Michael Fernandez and Loh Kah Seng -- Part 4. Walking Narrow Paths Singapore's Catholic Social Activists: Alleged Marxist Conspirators / Michael D. Barr -- Internalised Boundaries: AWARE's Place in Singapore's Emerging Civil Society / Lenore Lyons -- History Spiked: Hegemony and the Denial of Media Diversity / Cherian George.