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Hidden hands and divided landscapes :Penal labor and colonial citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825--1873 (Malaysia)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Hidden hands and divided landscapes :
Reminder of title:	Penal labor and colonial citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825--1873 (Malaysia)
Author:	Pieris, Anoma Darshani.
Description:	367 p.
Notes:	Chair: Dell Upton.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0318.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Architecture.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3121649
ISBN:	0496690000

Hidden hands and divided landscapes :Penal labor and colonial citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825--1873 (Malaysia)
Pieris, Anoma Darshani.

Hidden hands and divided landscapes :Penal labor and colonial citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825--1873 (Malaysia) [electronic resource] - 367 p.

Chair: Dell Upton.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

During the nineteenth century, the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang and Melaka were established as free ports for British trade in Southeast Asia. As settlement colonies rather than colonial conquests they proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. The Straits government organized the migrant population into a colonial racial hierarchy using the grid, the ethnic enclaves and the public institutions to manage its social divisions. In this divided landscape the prison was the primary experimental site for colonial social policies and convicts were graduated by race and by the labor needed for urban construction. In fact from 1825--1873, convicts from Indian presidencies were transported to the Straits Settlements specifically for public works. They built the infrastructure and the public architecture of the colony and manufactured building materials. European ideas of modernity, industry and citizenship were communicated to natives, through the colonial prison system.

ISBN: 0496690000Subjects--Topical Terms:

208437
Architecture.

Hidden hands and divided landscapes :Penal labor and colonial citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825--1873 (Malaysia)
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520 # $a The more general question that is raised by this dissertation is whether a narrative of construction and labor practices can contribute to a history of architecture. We find that by acknowledging the role of penal labor in Straits cities we raise doubts regarding the success of colonial urbanism. We also find that these doubts continue to surface when studying the postcolonial city where divisions of space, race and labor replicate patterns of colonial segregation.
520 # $a The objective of this dissertation is to understand the role played by architecture and urbanism in maintaining the social structure of a settlement colony. The settlements have been studied through five different interpretations of 'divided landscapes': that of the colonial urban plan; the colonial prison; the landscape of labor; the urban festival; and the forms adopted by colonial authority in response to native unrest. Each interpretation is contextualized in the history of penal transportation and urban construction. In this history, the circulation of convicts in public as they engaged in public works disrupted the order of the divided landscape and revealed the politics of colonial urbanism. The 'hidden hands' of my title implies that despite the modern liberal context of the colonial urban economy it remained dependent on forced labor.
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