{"product_id":"exhumations-inside-the-body-of-a-petrostate","title":"Exhumations: Inside The Body Of A Petrostate","description":"\u003cp\u003eSingaporeanCanadian Author Joanne Leow Sheds Light On The Underbelly Of SingaporeS History And The Human Cost Behind Its Glittering Faade.What Unknowable Chemical? How Slow Was This Damage, This Violence? . . . How Might Any Of Us Stay Uncontaminated By All That Was Built Around Us?Sleek And Verdant, The CityState Of Singapore Has Long Been Admired On The Global Stage As A Lush Utopia, A WellConnected Trade Port And The Jewel Of Southeast Asia. Yet This Carefully Pruned Exterior Conceals The CountryS Crude ConstructionOil Is The Blood ThatS Run Through SingaporeS Hidden Veins For Decades, While Sand And Migrant Labour Has Allowed For Its Rapid Development And Expansion. The Upkeep Of This Sanitized Public Image Has Also Relied Crucially On The Complicity And Regulation Of Its Body Politic.Years After Her Departure To Canada, A Place Likewise Indebted To Fossil Fuel Extraction, Joanne Leow Continues To Live With SingaporeS Authoritarian Policies Embedded Within Her Skin. With Unflinching Clarity, She Exhumes The Histories And Ongoing Realities Of Various State Initiatives That Seek To Control Both The Public And The Private Aspects Of Its Citizenry, Examining Her Work As A Journalist For The StateControlled Media And Chronicling The Daily Hypervigilance And Unconscious Suppression Of Anything That Might Be Deemed As Dissidence. In This Intervening Time, During Which She Dealt Also With Serious Illness And Bereavement, Joanne Reflects Upon The Various Ways In Which This Oppression Continues To Exist In Her Bones, A Slow Poisoning Only TruthTelling Can Expunge.In Searing Yet Lyrically Gorgeous Prose, Exhumations Catalogues The Many Things That Are Produced Under Pressure. Bit By Bit, Joanne Exposes The Petrofiction At The Heart Of SingaporeS Being And Traces The Unruliness Of Thought Daily Growing Within Her, Difficult To Ignore And Impossible To Repress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957892464885,"sku":"DADAX1039057276","price":36.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91KPWs-BWLL.jpg?v=1775559273","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/exhumations-inside-the-body-of-a-petrostate","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}