Moralising racial regimes: surveillance and control after Singapore’s ‘Little India riots’

Greener, Joe ORCID: 0000-0001-7087-3040 (2022) Moralising racial regimes: surveillance and control after Singapore’s ‘Little India riots’. Race & Class, 64 (1). pp. 46-62.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03063968221095733

Abstract

<jats:p> This article examines the moral politics of state organised social control in bolstering racialisation in Singapore after the 2013 disturbances in ‘Little India’, when agencies mobilised morally charged discourses regarding alcohol consumption amongst low-income South Asian migrants. Appealing to moral constructions of the ‘riots’ discredited socio-political analyses of the events, after which the state developed a mass architecture of alcohol-related ‘governing through crime’, placing migrant lives under permanent and constant surveillance. The piece contributes to debates about moral economy approaches by connecting the strategic deployment and justification of crime control underpinning racial regimes and reveals inadequacies in critical thinking around ‘race’ in Singapore, most notably a preoccupation with interactional accounts of racism rather than institutional state power. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health, Substance Misuse, Brain Disorders, 3 Good Health and Well Being
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2022 11:10
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 14:41
DOI:	10.1177/03063968221095733
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968221095733
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3160265