Description
Book SynopsisAn 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.
Table of Contents
- List of Images
- Introduction: Humans and Other Animals in a Singaporean Anthropocene
- Chapter 1: Tilapia, Travel and the Making of a Singaporean Creature
- Chapter 2: One of the Main Drawbacks of Tropical Living
- Chapter 3: Mosquitoes, Public Health and the Construction of a Modern Society
- Chapter 4: Fear, Fascination and Fantasy in the Cultural History of Crocodiles
- Chapter 5: Too Much Monkey Business
- Chapter 6: Songbirds in a Garden City
- Chapter 7: Marine Life in Service of the State at Public Aquariums and Oceanariums in Singapore
- Chapter 8: Nation, Nature and the Singapore Zoological Gardens, 1973-2018
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
