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'Offering a near-comprehensive account of recent, intermedial art-practices in Singapore, Counter-cartographies situates its study within a genealogy of spatial governence that extends through colonial technologies of surveillance and extraction, into contemporary regimes of intensive infrastructural development and social control. Advancing expansive, detailed and vivid studies of recent works and artists from Singapore, Leow demonstrates a gift for close reading in the traditional sense – the exposition of selected works and artists, as well as the polyvocality they evoke, are held in balance with the study’s premise on cartographic control.' Tania Roy ‘This is a vital, revelatory work that deftly navigates between the clarity of distance and the close intimacy of having walked the ground upon which these contestations are sited. It positions Singapore’s texts as potent spaces for exploration within wider global contexts of colonialism and urbanism.’ Olivia Ho, Wasafiri

'Offering a near-comprehensive account of recent, intermedial art-practices in Singapore, Counter-cartographies situates its study within a genealogy of spatial governence that extends through colonial technologies of surveillance and extraction, into contemporary regimes of intensive infrastructural development and social control. Advancing expansive, detailed and vivid studies of recent works and artists from Singapore, Leow demonstrates a gift for close reading in the traditional sense – the exposition of selected works and artists, as well as the polyvocality they evoke, are held in balance with the study’s premise on cartographic control.' Tania Roy

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Joanne Leow is an Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

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