CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Chua, Julian Ying Hao |
|---|---|
| Title | Families as sites of production: Changing childcare practices in Singapore |
| Summary | As Singapore emerges from celebrating her 50th year of independence, we are given an opportune moment to reflect on her route to modernity. The story of state and urban working class family in Singapore captures in part the locally embedded reproductive logic of capital adapting to the shifting demands of capitalist value regime. This thesis takes the case of expanding preschool services in Singapore to examine how relations of familial, care, and of education, are organised and structured to reproduce the mechanics of appropriation and extraction. These sets of relationship, I argue, are captured in a local culture of ‘community’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interview data, I show how different actors of the urban working class navigate and negotiate the community to mediate tensions of disembedded childcare in their everyday practices. It shows, on one hand, the common problems and interest faced by preschool teachers and parents. On the other hand, it is confronted with the distinct interests of the Singapore state and capital. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Li, Ju |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/chua_julian.pdf |
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