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Hello and welcome to my blog collection! Most pieces are a short 10-minute read, although I am experimenting with many different styles (research papers, op-eds, comics, etc). Hope you enjoy the posts and do remember to leave comments :)
Decolonial Projects: Fanon’s Critique of the Western Models of Political Transformation
Written on 20th April 2024 Preamble: Another one of my essays for the same module - and gosh I love writing about Fanon. Encountered...
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Jun 1, 2024
Freud's Critique of Socialism: Incompatibility with Instinctual Necessity
Written on 29 February 2024 Preamble: This was my essay for one of my modules and frankly, as much as I ABHOR Freud, this essay was...
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Jun 1, 2024
Reading Review: Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, pp. 10-112
Rebecca SE Tan 8 February 2024 *I think I am going to start writing random preambles for my essays for some context. This piece was...
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Feb 12, 2024
Reading Review: Carl Schmitt. The Concept of the Political, pp. 19-79
Rebecca SE Tan 1 Feb 2024 Preamble: This was also written for an assignment; to be honest when I was reading Schmitt I was so horrified?...
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Feb 12, 2024
Has data-sharing technology saved our water crisis? No, geopolitical tensions linger still.
Rebecca SE Tan | 20 April 2023 Introduction Is sustainable development for water within reach? Optimists believe that a major piece of...
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May 16, 2023
The Definitional Problem: Can States be Terrorists?
Rebecca SE Tan 13 January 2023 Introduction “Remember the worst terrorist campaign in the world by far is the one that’s being...
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Feb 15, 2023
Violent Resistance: On Necessity and Morality
Rebecca SE Tan 25 December 2022 Introduction Violent resistance characterises our news today – from Iran to Hong Kong to Bolivia and...
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Dec 26, 2022
Management of Race and Religion: The Singapore Context
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 12 April 2021 “We have no illusions about the depths of the religious fault lines in our society,...
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Dec 21, 2022
Money: The Root of Unnatural Accumulation
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 19 November 2020, on how the invention of money has overcame Locke's limits on natural rights to...
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Dec 19, 2022
Living and Breathing Meritocracy: An Autoethnography of a Privileged Singaporean
Rebecca SE Tan 13 December 2022 Introduction Meritocracy has become part of Singapore’s pride and cultural identity (Hong & Lugg, 2016;...
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Dec 14, 2022
Preventing Political Absolutism: Locke's Separation of Powers
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 7 October 2020 Posted on 7 December 2022 Reposting yet another essay from two years ago!! In this...
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Dec 7, 2022
Democracy in Southeast Asia: Made Difficult by Ethnicity and Religion?
Rebecca SE Tan Originally written on 2 November 2021 Posted on 2 December 2022 Posting another one of my past writings :D It's nice to...
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Dec 2, 2022
Contemporary Politics of Climate Change: Ecological Modernization in Singapore
Rebecca SE Tan 28 November 2022 Introduction Part of the C40 cities, Singapore is a unique case study due to its status as a city-state –...
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Nov 28, 2022
The ‘Evils’ of Religion: A Source of Political Violence and Terrorism?
Rebecca SE Tan 18 November 2022 Introduction On the fateful day of September 11, 2001, al Qaeda hijacked four planes and crashed them,...
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Nov 20, 2022
Hindu Tradition of Political Thought: Gandhi's Innovations & Subversions
Rebecca SE Tan 19 November 2022 Author's Note: This essay was first written on 19 November 2020 for a school paper, but I thought it'd be...
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Nov 19, 2022
TIL: Is Violence Ever Legitimate?
Rebecca SE Tan 18 November 2022 In political theory class, we discussed whether violence is ever legitimate in specific situations,...
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Nov 19, 2022
Positive Liberty: An Imposition on our Freedoms?
Rebecca SE Tan 29 October 2022 Introduction What is positive liberty? As first defined by Isaiah Berlin, it is the absence of internal...
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Oct 30, 2022
TIL: Values as a Social Construct?
Rebecca SE Tan 20 October 2022 How are our values and desires formed? This question is tackled by Nancy Hirschmann in her book “The...
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Oct 21, 2022
TIL: Perspectives on “Underachieving Boys” in our Education Systems
Rebecca SE Tan 18 October 2022 I am taking a sociology module for the first time, and some of my readings have been really interesting....
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Oct 18, 2022
Are Democracies Greater Predisposed to Terrorism?
Rebecca SE Tan 11 October 2022 Spurred by my lecture on the causes of terrorism today, I want to explore the argument that democracies...
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Oct 12, 2022
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