Memory-making 'from below': Rescaling remembrance at the Kranji War Memorial and Cemetery, Singapore

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1288-1305

  Muzaini, Hamzah ^a   Yeoh, Brenda ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMETERY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL TRADITION; WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34250843791     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3862     Document Type: Article

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