Neoliberal Visions, Post-capitalist Memories: Heritage Politics and the counter-mapping of...
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Neoliberal Visions, Post-capitalist Memories: Heritage Politics and the counter-mapping of
Singapore’s cityscape.
Dr Liew Kai Khiun & Dr Natalie Pang Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
Mapping the City-state
• 704 km²• Population: 5.2 million• Airports, seaports: Global
Connectivity and local restrictions
• Competing and complementary needs: New living and historical/natural spaces
Geometric-ized to Lifestylized: Mapping Exercises of the Colonial and Contemporary Nation-state in Singapore
• Demarcation, Zoning and Griding for Colonial Capitalism, Industrialization and neo-liberal political economy
• Scripting and Masterplaning
• Topographical to Cinematical
New Media, the Digital Revolution and the Insurgent Citizenry in Singapore
• GoogleEarth, photoshop and the Democratization of Mapping
• Facebook and the Digital Networked Mapping: Re-mining, re-configuration and re-platforming of archival materials
• Towards the Historical Nation: Counter-mapping and the Resistance against Disappearance
Empire Nation-State Insurgent Citizenry
Vision Hegemonic Futuristic Organic
Political Economy Colonial Capitalism Neo-Liberal Capitalism Post-Capitalist
Spatiality Colonial Port City Global Garden City Place-based City (Newman 2010: 168-9)
Temporalities GMT Utopic Historical
Anxieties Decline Staticity Plasticity
Authorship Guardianship Custodianship Co-Authorship
Politics Expansionist Developmentalist Conservationist
Technology Geometric Imaging Pixelating
Agent Colonial Surveyor Urban Planner Netizen Reconfigurator
Cartographic Production
Single Mapped Paper Building Models Resurrected Networked Images
Knowledge Repository
Museum Memory Presence
Singapore’s Mapping Vision
Resurrection & Re-appearance • Mining, digitalization and
the cyberpublic sharing of official and personal archival illustrations
Co-authored Rejuvenation • Engaging/Collaboration
with state agencies in Mapping Exercises
Resuscitation • Efforts in historicizing
place with archival maps and real-time images
Map of the former Royal Naval Base
A proposal for the Rail Corridor exhibited in the premises of the Urban Redevelopment Authority
Real time traffic conditions used by conservationists to argue against new road development through the Bukit Brown Cemetery
Conclusion
• New Media and the multiple surfacing and re-layering of cartographic imaginations
• The Futuristic and Historical: State-civil society relations and the negotiations of contrasting mapping visions