The queer time of creative urbanism: Family, futurity, and global city Singapore

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1624-1640

  Oswin, Natalie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Futurity; Global city; Heteronormativity; Migrant workers; Sexual citizenship; Singapore

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GENDER RELATIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; LIBERALIZATION; MIGRANT WORKER; NATURALIZATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SOCIETY; URBANIZATION; WORLD CITY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84865187596     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44282     Document Type: Article

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