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This is an exciting and original take on the politics of a global city, one which effortlessly combines queer and post-colonial theories to show how the intimate politics of heternormativity are central to the making of the Singaporean city-state. As well as being a vital intervention in the broad field of critical SIngapore studies, it represents a significant step forward in world cities research, and is essential reading for all those interested in the making of cities in the context of contemporary globalization. --Phil Hubbard, King's College London author of Cities and Sexualities Global City Futures is a timely reminder that what appear to be contemporary 'LGBT issues' in fact belong in a broader historical context of colonial and postcolonial anxieties and strategies of governance. Embedded in scholarly and ethical commitments of queer studies, Oswin urges us to see that in our times of flux and transition, troubled by multiple inequalities and injustices, scholars and activists would do well to look up from our silos of causes to recognize intersectionalities and articulate connections. To move forward, we must regularly glance back; and to imagine alternatives, we must confront shared circumstances of erasure, abjection, precarity. --Youyenn Teo, Nanyang Technological University author of This Is What Inequality Looks Like

This is an exciting and original take on the politics of a global city, one which effortlessly combines queer and post-colonial theories to show how the intimate politics of heternormativity are central to the making of the Singaporean city-state. As well as being a vital intervention in the broad field of critical SIngapore studies, it represents a significant step forward in world cities research, and is essential reading for all those interested in the making of cities in the context of contemporary globalization. --Phil Hubbard, King's College London author of Cities and Sexualities Global City Futures is a timely reminder that what appear to be contemporary 'LGBT issues' in fact belong in a broader historical context of colonial and postcolonial anxieties and strategies of governance. Embedded in scholarly and ethical commitments of queer studies, Oswin urges us to see that in our times of flux and transition, troubled by multiple inequalities and injustices, scholars and activists would do well to look up from our silos of causes to recognize intersectionalities and articulate connections. To move forward, we must regularly glance back; and to imagine alternatives, we must confront shared circumstances of erasure, abjection, precarity. --Youyenn Teo, Nanyang Technological University author of This Is What Inequality Looks Like

"""This is an exciting and original take on the politics of a global city, one which effortlessly combines queer and post-colonial theories to show how the intimate politics of heternormativity are central to the making of the Singaporean city-state. As well as being a vital intervention in the broad field of critical SIngapore studies, it represents a significant step forward in world cities research, and is essential reading for all those interested in the making of cities in the context of contemporary globalization.""--Phil Hubbard, King's College London ""author of Cities and Sexualities"" ""Global City Futures is a timely reminder that what appear to be contemporary 'LGBT issues' in fact belong in a broader historical context of colonial and postcolonial anxieties and strategies of governance. Embedded in scholarly and ethical commitments of queer studies, Oswin urges us to see that in our times of flux and transition, troubled by multiple inequalities and injustices, scholars and activists would do well to look up from our silos of causes to recognize intersectionalities and articulate connections. To move forward, we must regularly glance back; and to imagine alternatives, we must confront shared circumstances of erasure, abjection, precarity. ""--Youyenn Teo, Nanyang Technological University ""author of This Is What Inequality Looks Like"""

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Natalie Oswin is an associate professor of geography at McGill University. She has published numerous articles regarding the geographies of sexuality and its relation to queer and postcolonial theories, most recently in Gender, Place and Culture and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.

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