Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore

Abstract

Within a traditionally subdued civil society, more citizens have stepped forward to address concerns about the impact of neoliberal development policies on Singapore’s heritage and communities. Queenstown is Singapore’s first satellite town with residential housing and amenities, while Geylang is known for its red-light district, illicit activities, and low-cost housing for migrant workers. Using walking tours to promote place-based community heritage in Queenstown and Geylang respectively, volunteer groups My Community and Geylang Adventures offer contrasting yet complementary accounts on how the residents and the broader public can be activated to participate in heritage preservation and local–migrant worker integration. Their civic activism contributes towards a distinct form of bottom-up nation-building and an alternative framework in understanding evolving state–society relations in Singapore.

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“…Estimates of population size histories for the Kingman coalescent were produced using the ( Liu and Fu, 2015 ; Liu, 2020 ) and ( Terhorst et al, 2016 ) available via Github at https://github.com/xiaoming-liu/stairway-plot-v2 and https://github.com/popgenmethods/smcpp , respectively. Based on the estimated population size histories site-frequency spectra under the Kingman and the -Beta( ) coalescents were simulated using , available via GitHub at https://github.com/tskit-dev/msprime , (copy archived at swh:1:rev:becc7b948123f8683c49ed41480ca2682d979a7f ; Wong, 2022 ), with documentation at https://tskit.dev/msprime/docs/stable/ . Our simulations also make use of the tskit library, available via GitHub at https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit , (copy archived at swh:1:rev:575daea4bcd535df7bc328a7387876eb986daebb ; Jeffery, 2023 ), with documentation at https://tskit.dev/tskit/docs/ .…”