Samenvatting
A neighbourhood containing Singapore’s oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire: the word ‘Commonwealth’ uncovers rich seams of history, replete with conquests, tragedies and once-potent visions of the future. Commonwealth takes as its starting-point the massive Bukit Ho Swee fires of the 196os – an event as deeply seared into the history of Kwek’s family as the nation’s own – and traces the dislocations and relocations that have come before it, and in its wake. Kwek’s earlier poetry collections dealt with questions of personal rootedness and larger-scale displacement; still formally adept, Commonwealth is a new departure, drawing on a wide array of documentary and oral history sources to address upheavals of individual and collective lives within one of the world’s most densely populated cities.
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- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
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- strategisch management
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