Las Vegas in Singapore : Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity /

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Las Vegas in Singapore looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas in the form of Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore's two integrated resorts. The first history begins in colonial Singapore in the 1880s, when British administrators revised gambling laws in response to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Kah Wee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Casinos > Economic aspects > Singapore.
Gambling industry > Economic aspects > Singapore.
Casinos > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Casinos > Singapore.
Gambling > Law and legislation > Singapore.
Gambling > Moral and ethical aspects > Singapore.
Gambling > Singapore > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. City of violence.
  • The forensic and the generalized : criminalizing vice through the "common gaming house" in colonial Singapore
  • The paradox of nationalist modernity : expanding criminality, urban evictions and the criminalization of everyday life
  • The debris of nation-building : gambling and the street economy
  • From lottery to stadium : "moral laundering" as symbolic transformation of money
  • part II : City of progress. The quantitative turn and its discontents : casino gambling in corporate America
  • "Architectural reasons to gamble" : a spatial economy of numbers and desire
  • Las Vegas in Singapore : nationalist modernity and the aesthetic of effacement.

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