Heritage: Singapore

Blackburn, K. 2007

‘Heritage site, war memorial and tourist stop: the Japanese Cemetery of Singapore, 1891-2005’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 80:1, 17-39.

Chong, T. 2014

‘Bukit Brown Municipal Cemetery: contesting imaginations of the good life in Singapore’ in D. Goh (ed.) Worlding Multiculturalisms, London: Routledge, 171-192.

Graham, C. & Pang, N. 2019

‘The politics of threatened spaces of the dead: challenges for (re)disposal in a traditional Chinese cemetery in Singapore’, in T. Kohn, M. Gibbs, B. Nansen and L. van Ryn (eds) Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured, London: Routledge, 19-36.

Hendeson, J. 2012

‘The loss of a cultural heritage and tourism resource: Singapore’s disappearing burial grounds’, South Asian Journal of Tourism and Heritage, 5:2, 1-14.

Huang, J. 2014

‘Resurgent spirit of civil society activism: rediscovering the Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 87:2, 21-45.

Hunang, J. 2014

‘Resurgent spirit of civil society activism: rediscovering the Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 87:2, 21-45.

Liew, K., Pang, N. & Chan, B. 2013

‘New media and new politics with old cemeteries and disused railways: advocacy goes digital in Singapore’, Asian Journal of Communication, 23:6, 605-619.

Loh, K. 2012

History of the Dead, Heritage of the Living: Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 42.

Ocón, D. 2021

‘Balancing sustainable development and cultural heritage preservation: luxury burial legacies in Singapore’, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 13:1, 87-107.

Tan, S. & B. Yeo 2023

‘Between life, death and modernity at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore’, in D. House & M. Westendorp with A. Maddrell (eds) New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Changes and Contestation, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 42-61.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract