Personal reflections on formal Second World War memories/ memorials in everyday spaces in Singapore
Introduction Scattered around the island of Singapore, and complementing the myriad bounded spaces of museums, preserved forts and war cemeteries established over the years, is yet another way the nation commemorates the country’s involvement in the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation of 1941-1945: the comparably unremarkable markers of history that have been formally inserted into more quotidian surroundings. Among these are the ‘open-book’-shaped plaques instituted as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in 1995 (Wong 2001), some so blended into the landscape that they can be missed. That is, unless, armed with a proper guide (e.g. NHB 2013), one goes on self-choreographed trails or accidentally stumbles upon them. Although a few are accompanied by material traces (and many of these have already been readapted for other uses), others are nothing more than reminders of what was, memory of past events still seen as noteworthy.
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| Format: | Part of book or chapter of book biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
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| Subjects: | Life Science, |
| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/personal-reflections-on-formal-second-world-war-memories-memorial |
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