Dewesternizing censorship

Whether in legacy or digital media, our imaginations of media censorship and freedom continue to be based on early enlightenment conceptualisations of civil society, the state and the rational citizen subject. I have published several pieces that problematize imposing Western ideas of civil society on non-Western contexts, and that propose new frameworks that de-Westernize how we study censorship.

Articles include:
Fong, S. Y., 2015. Censorship as Performance – The case of a Singapore Reality TV Show. In E. Thorsen et al., eds. Media, Margins and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 202-18.

Fong, S. Y. (2018). Rethinking Censorship: A Case Study of Singaporean Media. Javnost - The Public, 25(4), 410–425.

Fong, S. Y., 2020. Imagining Film Censorship in Singapore: The case of Sex.Violence.FamilyValues. In Asian Cinema, 31:1, 77-98.