s/pores is a new e-journal run by a group Singaporean academics, mostly based in NUS:
This e-journal aims to provide a much-needed multi-disciplinary platform for the dissemination of works investigating different aspects of historical and contemporary Singapore society. Moving beyond statist perspectives, the journal encourages research that opens up space for recalibrating the status quo in Singapore....s/pores is an interplay of the short form, the lower case, the plural, the backslash-the informal, the non-elite, the multiple, the oblique. Pronounced ‘spores’, our title also denotes the dispersal of seeds of ideas, some of which should fall on fertile ground. s/pores is therefore simultaneously a declaration of authorial positioning as it is a statement of our hopes for a more variegated Singapore.
The first issue touches on pre-1965 Singapore as a starting point to explore alternative narratives to the Singapore Story.
A Tomorrow.sg post highlighted Hong Lysa's The Continuing Saga of Singapore's Story, which uses S. Rajaratnam's passing as a focal point to examine the lack of diversity in our foundation stories. This article is heavy going for a blog format, as are the others, but they are worth the time to read.
The s/pores team also invites contributions:
Contributions should be the result of scholarly research, but need not be presented with the full formal conventions of an academic product. In fact, the injunction is that intimidating academic-speak is out. We want to provide room as well for reflective essays, proposals and tentative findings for new areas of research.
This is one blog that I will definitely continue reading.
UPDATE s/pores now offers PDFs for printing. PDFs for Vol 1 Issue 1.