Capital and the transfiguring monumentality of raffles hotel

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-195

  Goh, Daniel P S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Cultural form; Development state; Hotels; Monument; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; CULTURAL CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION; HERITAGE CONSERVATION; MONUMENT; NEOLIBERALISM; POST-COLONIALISM; WORLD CITY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 77951572863     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101003665010     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Anderson, B. (1998) The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World (London: Verso).
2. Appadurai, A. (1990) Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy, Public Culture, 2(2), pp. 1-24.
3. Applin, R. V. K. (1994 [1937]) Bathing at Raffles Hotel, in: J. Bastin (Ed) Travellers' Singapore: An Anthology, pp. 143-146 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press).
4. Asia Wall Street Journal (1980) Sadly the next ball at Raffles may be a Wrecker's, May 15, Hong Kong, pp. 1, 9.
5. Bleackley, H. (1994 [1928]) The Europe and Raffles Hotels, in: J. Bastin (Ed), Travellers'Singapore: An Anthology, pp. 202-213 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press).
6. Business Times (1979) Raffles Hotel at the crossroads, Singapore. March 15.
7. Business Times (1986) Making Raffles Hotel a crown jewel, Singapore. December 24.
8. Business Times (1988a) $55 million facelift for an old lady, Singapore. February 25.
9. Business Times (1988b) Raffles Hotel owners win site tender, Singapore. August 1.
10. Business Times (1989) Back to the past and into the future, Singapore. June 24.
11. Clancy-Smith, J. & Gouda, F. (Eds) (1998) Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia).
12. Collingham, E. M. (2001) Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947 (Cambridge: Polity Press).
13. Comaroff, J. & Comaroff, J. L. (2000) Millennial capitalism: First thoughts on a second coming, Public Culture, 12(2), pp. 291-343.
14. Flower, R. (1986) Year of the Tiger (Singapore: Raffles Hotel).
15. Gaonkar, D. P. & Povinelli, E. A. (2003) Technologies of public forms: Circulation, transfiguration, recognition, Public Culture, 15(3), 385-397.
16. Harben, H.D. (1994 [1936]) The most colourful town in the world, in: J. Bastin (Ed) Travellers'Singapore: An Anthology, pp. 231-236 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press).
17. Henderson, J.C. (2001) Conserving colonial heritage: Raffles Hotel in Singapore, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7(1), pp. 7-24.
18. Holden, P. (1996) Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press).
19. Holden, P. (1999) The free market's second coming: monumentalising Raffles, in: P. G. L. Chew & A. Kramer-Dahl (Eds) Reading Culture: Textual Practices in Singapore, pp. 83-98 (Singapore: Times Academic Press).
20. Horan, W.R. (1994 [1935]) Singapore's seething life, in: J. Bastin (Ed) Travellers'Singapore: An Anthology, pp. 213-223 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press).
21. Hutton, W. (1978) Grand hotels of Asia: 2, Silver Kris, May-June: 29-33.
22. King, A. (1995) The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture (New York: Oxford University Press).
23. Kong, L. & Yeoh, B. S. A. (2003) The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Construction of 'Nation', (New York: Syracuse University Press).
24. Lai C.-K. (2005) Concrete/concentric nationalism: The architecture of independence in Malaysia, 1945-1969, Unpublished thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
25. Marx, K. (1976 [1867]) Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, trans. B. Fowkes (London: Penguin Books and New Left Review).
26. Morris, J. (1983) Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
27. Pregarz, R. (1990) Memories of Raffles: 22 Years with a Grand Old Hotel (Singapore: Treasury Publishing).
28. Raffles Hotel (2007) Dining in Raffles Hotel. Available at http://singapore-raffles.raffles.com/z912/restaurant.html (accessed 13 February 2007).
29. Sharp, I. (1981) There is Only One Raffles: The Story of a Grand Hotel (London: Souvenir Press).
30. Singapore Government (2000) Singapore Annual Report on Tourism Statistics. Available at http://app.stb.com.sg/asp/tou/tou03.asp (accessed 9 September 2007).
31. Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (1991) Strategic Economic Plan: Towards A Developed Nation (Singapore: SNP Publishers).
32. Singapore Monitor (1982), December 28, Singapore.
33. Singapore Monitor (1982) New tower block for Raffles Hotel, 28 December, p. 12.
34. Stoler, A. L. (2002) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).
35. The Straits Times (1980a) Incentive offer to preserve Raffles? 16 July, p. 1.
36. The Straits Times (1980b) Raffles Hotel owners to go it alone, 16 August 16, p. 9.
37. The Straits Times (1986) When prestige counts - a suites-only Raffles Hotel, 11 December, p. 14.
38. The Straits Times (1987a) Restoration of Raffles to start soon? 4 April, p. 19.
39. The Straits Times (1987b) Raffles' growth hinges on who gets land next door, 9 December, p. 26.
40. The Straits Times (1989a) Much ado about the Raffles, 15 March, p. 27.
41. The Straits Times (1989b) Treasure trove of relics found at Raffles Hotel, 23 June, p. 2.
42. The Straits Times (1990) Raffles Hotel globe-trots in search of lost portico design 7 December, p. 5.
43. The Straits Times (1991) A grand old lady returns, June 26, pp. 1-2.
44. Straits Times (2003a) When laws of the jungle fail in the jungle..., April 4.
45. The Straits Times (2003b) Sarong party boys, 5 October, p. 8.
46. The Straits Times (2004) Why 'Uniquely Singapore' 24 March, p. 19.
47. The Straits Times (2005) Remaking Singapore as a vibrant global city, 23 August, p. 6.
48. The Straits Times (2006a) UK award for man who put youth on right track, 26 March, p. 14.
49. The Straits Times (2006b) Raffles Hotel - in Beijing, 28 June, p. 3.
50. Urban Redevelopment Authority and Preservation of Monuments Board (1997) Raffles Hotel Preservation Guidelines, Volume I (Singapore: The Authority and Board).
51. Wells, C. (1994 [1940]) Raffles Hotel, in: J. Bastin (Ed) Travellers'Singapore: An Anthology, pp. 242-249 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press).
52. Wharton, A.J. (2001) Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press).
53. Yeoh, B. S. A. (2003) Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment (Singapore: Singapore University Press).