Exhumations
Inside the Body of a Petrostate
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Singaporean-Canadian author Joanne Leow sheds light on the underbelly of Singapore's history and the human cost behind its glittering façade.
"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 city-state of Singapore has long been admired on the global stage as a lush utopia, a well-connected trade port and the jewel of Southeast Asia. Yet this carefully pruned exterior conceals the country’s crude construction—oil is the blood that's run through Singapore’s 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 Singapore’s 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 state-controlled 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 truth-telling 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 Singapore’s being and traces the unruliness of thought daily growing within her, difficult to ignore and impossible to repress.
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“This book is an epic unmasking. With an ornate structure that brings together research, theory, history, literature, and the sand of Joanne Leow’s own memory, Exhumations dissects Singapore’s architecture—an architecture of concrete and land, but also of technology, unnatural horticulture, and narrative control. In doing so, it rivals any of Singapore’s staggering creations.” —Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes
“In this vital excavation of a city-state’s gleaming lies, Joanne Leow traces what accumulates: the petroleum beneath every perfect surface, the seized sand, the police state’s quiet grip on every throat. With great care, she shows us the hands that built this world, the bodies made porous by contamination, the dissident gestures of those who refuse—a doctor, an activist elder, an artist.
Here, in the flickering space between complicity and resistance, Leow reveals that no system can be total and no hold can last forever. Exhumations is a profound and beautiful reminder to find the gaps.” —Kyo Maclear, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author of Unearthing and Birds, Art, Life
“This book is an epic unmasking. With an ornate structure that brings together research, theory, history, literature, and the sand of Joanne Leow’s own memory, Exhumations dissects Singapore’s architecture—an architecture of concrete and land, but also of technology, unnatural horticulture, and narrative control. In doing so, it rivals any of Singapore’s staggering creations.” —Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes
“In this vital excavation of a city-state’s gleaming lies, Joanne Leow traces what accumulates: the petroleum beneath every perfect surface, the seized sand, the police state’s quiet grip on every throat. With great care, she shows us the hands that built this world, the bodies made porous by contamination, the dissident gestures of those who refuse—a doctor, an activist elder, an artist.
Here, in the flickering space between complicity and resistance, Leow reveals that no system can be total and no hold can last forever. Exhumations is a profound and beautiful reminder to find the gaps.” —Kyo Maclear, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author of Unearthing and Birds, Art, Life
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