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Managing Chineseness

Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore

Daphnee Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58257-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of ‘Chineseness’. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as ‘the only true Leninist project that has survived’, and Lee revisits the Singapore ‘social laboratory’, addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China’s rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occurin the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place?

The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education.

Daphnee Lee is Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong.

1. Managing Chineseness as Identity Grafting.- 2. Sleeping Fishing Village overrun by Immigrants?.- 3. Typologizing Chineseness.- 4. The Complex.- 5. The Boys wear High Heels with Platforms.- 6. Sunshine and Bananas and Coconuts.- 7. Singapore Society in Transition, Really?.- 8. Indeed

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Frontiers of Globalization
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 262 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Business Management • Childhood • employees • Global Economy • Globalisation • Organizational Sociology • pre-Independence Singapore • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology of Education • Transnational Professionalism
ISBN-10	1-137-58257-X / 113758257X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-58257-7 / 9781137582577
Zustand	Neuware