This archive maintains s/pores’ original appearance from its founding in 2007 until its 20th issue in September 2021.
In December 2021, the s/pores website was updated with a brand new look. As one of the earliest online platforms for Singapore studies, it seemed important that the earlier web aesthetics of s/pores be archived here.
While this archive will not receive further updates, new issues will continue to be published at the updated website, https://s-pores.com. Look forward to having you there!
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no. 20 > “Bicentennial 2019 Biennale”
no. 20>“Bicentennial 2019 Biennale”
Editorial: Bicentennial 2019 Biennale
Preview Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History (Ethos Books)
Sai Siew Min > Updating the Narrative: a Dialogue Between the Former Coloniser and Colonised
Faris Joraimi > Redoing and Undoing the Colonial Pageant: Dialogues with the Raffles Statues
Joseph Tham > Are You One Of Them? – Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme
Cecily Cheo > Looking at Song-Ming Ang at the National Museum, Singapore
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no. 19 > “Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore”
no. 19>“Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore”
Editorial: Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore
Chan Wai Han > A fierce Cantonese woman – growing up in Singapore in the 60s
Fong Hoe Fang > Going to Where the Silence Is
Kevin YL Tan > Standing Up and Being Counted: Lessons from my Childhood
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no. 18 > “Exploring Disability Studies”
no. 18>“Exploring Disability Studies”
Kuansong Zhuang, Victor >Editorial – Exploring Disability Studies: Reflections on methodology
Alvan Yap > Looking at ‘d’ art: Fab or fad?
Jacqueline Woo > Cripping the Church: A Personal Reflection on Disability and Religion
Fiona Tan > Universal Design: Beyond the exclusive “Barrier-Free” labels
Phoebe Tay > Being d/Deaf in Singapore: A Personal Reflection of Deaf Culture and Identity
Nurul Fadiah Johari > My experiences and perspectives on the lack of empathy in psychiatry
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s-pores special highlight> Interview with Mr Yeng Pway Ngon
Mr Yeng in Grassroots Book Room. Image Courtesy of Tan Waln Ching
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no. 17 > “History and Critical Pedagogy”
no. 17>“History and Critical Pedagogy”
Introduction to the 17th Issue: History and Critical Pedagogy
Chua Beng Huat > Editorial: Critical Pedagogy
Sonny Liew > The Hunt for Mas Selamat
Sonny Liew > Beauty World
Philip Holden > Writing Emergency: Teaching Singapore Literature in an Historical Frame
Joseph Tham > History Education, Graphic Novels & Historical Thinking
Angelia Poon > Teaching the Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
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no. 16 > “Being Young in the 1950s”
no. 16>“Being Young in the 1950s”
Edgar Liao > “Introduction to Constructing Nanyang Childhood”
Edgar Liao > “Civics for Young Malayans: Colonial Educator E H G Dobby in Singapore”
Interview with Mr Arthur Yap – an English-educated youth in 1950s Singapore
Ho Jin Yee > “In His Own Words: Writings of the young S. Rajaratnam”
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no. 15 > “bookshops”
no. 15>“bookshops”
Our 15th Issue – “bookshops” – Celebrating 10 years of s/pores
Faris Joraimi > “Wardah”
Fadli Fawzi and Faris Joraimi > “The Intellectual Legacy of Kampung Glam”
Tan Waln Ching > “City Book Room” by Tan Waln Ching (English and Chinese)
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s-pores commentary No. 1> “Some Men and a Red Box; A Woman and Her Handbag”
(Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s Red box, Straits Times 31 March 2015)
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no. 14 > “Yang Tersirat”
no. 14> “Yang Tersirat”
Fadli Fawzi and Khairulanwar Zaini > Editorial
Alfian Sa’at > The Absent Mother: Malay Cinema, Cultural Memory and Mediated Spectatorship
Khairulanwar Zaini > Reading Resistance in the Malay Heritage Centre
Fadli Fawzi > Remembering the Malay Left
Nurhaizatul Jamil > API, AWAS, GERAM: Shamsiah Fakeh’s struggle for Malaya’s independence
Fairoz Ahmad > Ideology and Utopia in Al Imam
Siti Hazirah Binte Mohamad > “Living the lives of Hanyut”: The Construction of Malay Youth Delinquency in Singapore
Annaliza Bakri > Sebutan Baku and the need to redefine the limits of culture
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no. 13 – National Day 2013 Special Issue > Objectum – an exhibition
no. 13.2 › Objectum – an exhibition
Editor: 17 March 2014: As a follow-up feature, s/pores is pleased to feature an essay written by Wong Lee Min on the 2nd exhibition in curatingLAB: PHASE 03 – Objectum
Objectum: An Exhibition on the Shifting Meanings of Daily-Life Museum Objects>
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no. 13 – National Day 2013 Special Issue > after|thought – an exhibition
no. 13.1 › after|thought – an exhibition
Editor: In commemoration of National Day 2013, s/pores is pleased to present the afterthoughts of a recent art exhibition by a group of young curators and artists. Their theme and topic? – 9 August 1965.
Editor 24 Aug: Added a review of a new album LUCIFUGOUS (X’HO + ARCN TEMPL) that was launched on 9 August 1965.
5. Review of LUCIFUGOUS (X’HO + ARCN TEMPL) >> Senile Dementia>
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no. 12 > SeX Spaces in Singapore: ENcounters, INhabitants, and IDentities
no. 12 › Sex Spaces in Singapore: Encounters, Inhabitants, and Identities
Geylang Road (source: Terence Chong)
Introduction > Terence Chong
Public Morality in Sex Spaces> Vanessa Ho
Is Joo Chiat’s ‘Little Vietnam’ a thing of the past? – Essay and Photo Essay > Nicolas Lainez
Social Visits and Special Passes: Carceral Spaces of Migrant Sexual Labour in Singapore> Sallie Yea
Ethnographic Sex Work Research in Singapore: Who gets to speak? > Lu Huiyi
Imaginary Frontiers and Deferred Masculinity: Singapore Working Class Men in Batam > Terence Chong
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no. 11 > the pOp CuLTuRE IS-U
no. 11 › The pOp cUltURe Is-U
Introduction: Pop Culture in Singapore › Chua Beng Huat
An Interview with Sonny Liew › Lim Cheng Tju
“Model student” TV: The Inter-school Debates and the Politics of Education › Clarissa Oon
Review of Sun Worshipper › Joseph Tham
A Stone’s Throw Away › Leslie Low
The Early Comics of Eric Khoo › Lim Cheng Tju
ART: An Interview with Cheo Chai Hiang › Yvonne Low
Shaun’s Home Parties: A Photo Essay, with Introduction by Lim Cheng Tju ›
Review of Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise › Choy Kam Leong Larry
The Making of Ten Sticks and One Rice › Oh Yong Hwee and Koh Hong Teng
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no. 10 › so what
Routes not Roots › Philip Holden
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no. 9 › the arts II : Tan TH
Sketches from Prison › Teo Soh Lung
The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City › Robert Yeo
Reclaiming Literature for Singapore › Alvin Pang
Eulogy for Fang Xiu › Chng Seok Tin
Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else › Richard Chua
of love, and sweets › John Low
Meaning/Making A Circuit Of Cheo Chai-Hiang’s The Story of Money › Isabel Ching
Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case › Gwee Li Sui
Review: Singapura Uber Alles › Joseph Tham
› in memoriam: Tan Jing Quee (1939-2011)
Merger and Malaysia (1961) › Tan Jing Quee
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no. 8 › intellectuals
The Shifting Sands of Time: Boo Junfeng’s Sandcastle as Filmic History › Lim Cheng Tju and Hong Lysa
Portrait of a Modernist Poet: Lin Fang › Chiu Weili
Reading Kuo Pao Kun’s Early Leftist Plays › Clarissa Oon
“Chinese-educated” Intellectuals: A Case Study of The Tangent › Kelvin Chia
Suspending/escaping Race: A Civil Society Experience › Constance Singam
The Trouble with ‘Idealism’: Reflections on Intellectual Vocation and Moral Reasoning › Kwok Kian Woon
Review: Realism in Asia › Lim Cheng Tju
Review: Beyond the Blue Gate › Philip Holden
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no. 7 › men in white
Forum on Men in Black or White: History as Media Event in Singapore › Chua Beng Huat
From People’s Action Party to Men in White › Philip Holden
What a Book! What a Launch! What a Story! › Tan Tarn How
Men in White and the forever missing handshake › Hong Lysa
Review: Making and Unmaking the Asylum › Liew Kai Khiun
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no. 6 › the arts I : Tan TH
Culture and the Arts ‘After’ Kuo Pao Kun › C. J. W.-L. Wee
For wolfnotes › Lee Tzu Pheng
Third Stage › Wong Souk Yee
“But there is nothing here to shoot…” › Tay Kay Chin
Raising the Subject › Jason Wee
Censure and Censor › Loretta Chen
National Songs Revisited › Tan Shzr Ee
First-World Economy, Third-World Culture › Michelle Loh
Review: +65 Indie Underground › Joseph Tham
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no. 5 › detention
A Public Oral History of the Singapore Left in 2006 › Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee
Hide-and-Seek History › Teng Qian Xi
Ex-Political Detainee Forum at Singapore in 2006 › Kevin Blackburn
Forgetting Detention › Sai Siew Min
Review: Dark Folke › Ang Song Ming
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no. 4 › if : Tan Pin Pin
Once Bonded › Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Reminiscences on a HDB Point Block › Ho Weng Hin
学语以外 : Beyond Language Learning › 李慧玲 : Lee Huay Leng
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no. 3 › commemoration
Aggression in Asia (1954) › MK Rajakumar and Poh Soo Kai
Speech at the Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar › Poh Soo Kai
M.K. Rajakumar: A Life Well Lived › Tan Jing Quee
That He Shall Not Die a Second Death › Edgar Liao
The Enigma of A. Samad Ismail › Tan Jing Quee
Hankering for National Heroes › Hong Lysa
The Making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some Personal Reflections › Mark Ravinder Frost
David Marshall: A Bittersweet Remembrance › Daniel PS Goh
Review: 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s › Joseph Tham
Singapore in Mid-twentieth Century: The Deep Divide › CN Chen
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no. 2 › archives & memory
Introduction to “Learning Me Your Language” › Philip Holden
Learning Me Your Language › Wang Gungwu
Trial and Error in Malayan Poetry › Wang Gungwu
Three Faces of Night … Moon Thoughts › Wang Gungwu
Archive Fever … in Singapore: An Interview with CC Chin › Sai Siew Min
Approaching Life and Death: History and Memory in Interviews With Individuals Formerly Suffering from Leprosy in Singapore › Loh Kah Seng
Once Upon a Time, a Mendicant Professor in Singapore: Remembering the Enright Affair (November 1960) › Edgar Liao
Usman Awang in Singapore › Tan Jing Quee
Whose invisible city? Articulating Singapore’s pasts in Invisible City › Hong Lysa
Narrating the Nation: Thirty Years of A History of Singapore Conference Report › PJ Thum
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An Interview with Wang Gungwu (in the mid 1980s) › Robert Yeo
New University, Three Generations: China, Malaya, Singapore, 1949-2007 › Wang Gungwu
Review: Memories & Reflections › Loh Kah Seng
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no. 1 › inauguration
“A Subaltern Perspective on History” (人下人的历史观): Reading Fang Zhuang Bi’s (方壮壁) Memoir › Sai Siew Min
A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar › Lim Cheng Tju
Huang Kaide’s ‘Our Memories’ › Kwee Hui Kian
Interpreting National Language Class › Daniel PS Goh
The continuing saga of Singapore’s Story › Hong Lysa
In Memory of Linda Chen (1928-2002) › Tan Jing Quee
Ho Piao: A Personal Recollection and Appreciation › Tan Jing Quee
Education at Large: An Exhibition on Student Activities and Activism In Singapore, 1945-1965 › Francis Lim Khek Gee
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