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От национального государства к глобальному городу: "понижение"
как стратегический дискурс
This paper focuses on the discourses produced by the state
of Singapore as it attempts to re-invent Singapore as a global city. This focus
is especially intriguing because it bears on a prominent theme in globalization
studies: the extent to which the state is still relevant as a cultural frame
for the construction of identities, the management of economies, and the protection
of individual rights. Singapore appears to be seeking this global city status,
even though in the early years after its independence in 1965, it was primarily
concerned with establishing itself as a nation state. The paper demonstrates
how the shift towards a global city is marked by discursive differences in modulation,
as the state attempts to acknowledge the increasing interconnectedness between
Singapore, Singaporeans and the rest of the world. The changes in modulation
are consequently not to be treated as incidental discursive features of the
shift. Rather, they are markers of how the state is attempting to address the
problems of global mobility and deterritorialization by reasserting the status
of Singapore as a place (still) worth living in.