Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM)
Since independence, the government has continuously attempted to build a gracious and inclusive society. This research focuses on how Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM), as the forefront organisation, attempts to nurture kind and gracious Singaporeans. Previous literature revealed that pushing for...
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2016
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| author | Koh, Hui Yi |
| author2 | Sulfikar Amir |
| author_facet | Sulfikar Amir Koh, Hui Yi |
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| description | Since independence, the government has continuously attempted to build a gracious and
inclusive society. This research focuses on how Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM), as
the forefront organisation, attempts to nurture kind and gracious Singaporeans. Previous
literature revealed that pushing for “one gracious society” was in fact a social behaviour crisis
manufactured by the government to further its legitimacy and Singapore’s development.
Using Foucault’s governmentality and Elias’s civilizing process, this paper analyses how
SKM contributes to the government’s legitimacy. By analysing the results collated from a
participant observation and seventeen semi-structured interviews with SKM’s partners’
representatives, Facebook followers and employees, this study affirms a growing
acknowledgment and support of SKM and its initiatives from the respondents. Given such
acknowledgment and aligning values with the government’s, SKM could be arguably viewed
as a “microphysics of power” contributing to the government’s legitimacy through its efforts
to inculcate civilised and gracious conduct in citizens. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/661322019-12-10T14:21:36Z Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) Koh, Hui Yi Sulfikar Amir School of Humanities and Social Sciences Singapore Kindness Movement DRNTU::Social sciences Since independence, the government has continuously attempted to build a gracious and inclusive society. This research focuses on how Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM), as the forefront organisation, attempts to nurture kind and gracious Singaporeans. Previous literature revealed that pushing for “one gracious society” was in fact a social behaviour crisis manufactured by the government to further its legitimacy and Singapore’s development. Using Foucault’s governmentality and Elias’s civilizing process, this paper analyses how SKM contributes to the government’s legitimacy. By analysing the results collated from a participant observation and seventeen semi-structured interviews with SKM’s partners’ representatives, Facebook followers and employees, this study affirms a growing acknowledgment and support of SKM and its initiatives from the respondents. Given such acknowledgment and aligning values with the government’s, SKM could be arguably viewed as a “microphysics of power” contributing to the government’s legitimacy through its efforts to inculcate civilised and gracious conduct in citizens. Bachelor of Arts 2016-03-12T05:28:18Z 2016-03-12T05:28:18Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66132 en Nanyang Technological University 40 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Koh, Hui Yi Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) |
| title | Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) |
| title_full | Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) |
| title_short | Building a civilised nation of kind citizens : a study on the Singapore kindness movement (SKM) |
| title_sort | building a civilised nation of kind citizens a study on the singapore kindness movement skm |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66132 |
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