While I was doing my doctoral research in Sociology, I was spending a lot of time exploring hawker centres and markets in Singapore. Every day, I would look for new sites. Where are all these 107 hawker centres located? This led me to wonder: which markets are clustered close together? Which markets are more isolated?…
Tag: urban development
Dry Season
Ah Xin started working in the provision shop to help her parents as a sprightly 10-year-old. Fifty years down the road today, she still bubbles with the good-natured charm of her childhood, supplying a colourful diversity of dried goods in her humble little space: dried red chilli, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried chrysanthemum flowers, dried tofu… you…
Housework
“This shop was started by my father-in-law. When I got married, I started working here with my husband. 38 years already. But now, no new customers, all from before.”
Shopkeeper Stories 