Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

Contributors

Contributors 321 Contributors 321 Timothy P. Barnard (editor) is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he focuses on the environmental and cultural history of island Southeast Asia. His publications include “Protecting the Dragon: Dutch Attempts at Limiting Access to Komodo Lizards in the 1920s and 1930s,” Indonesia (2011); and, Multiple Centres of Authority: Society and Environment in Siak and Eastern Sumatra, 1674-1827 (2003). Cynthia Chou is an Associate Professor in the Department of CrossCultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University. Her research focuses on marginalized ethnic groups in Island Southeast Asia as well as food studies. Her publications include Indonesian Sea Nomads: Money, Magic and Fear of the Orang Suku Laut (2003), and The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The Inalienable Gift of Territory (2010). Mark Emmanuel is an independent scholar of Singapore who is interested in cultural and social issues. His publications include “Viewspapers: The Malay Press of the 1930s,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2010); and “The Malaysia Cup: Soccer and the National Imagining of Singapore, 1965–1996,” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2011). Goh Hong Yi is a history teacher in Singapore. Her research interests stem from her love for nature and her experience volunteering with Singaporean environmental groups. Corinne Heng is a history teacher in Singapore. Her research interests focus on post-1965 Singapore with a particular focus on issues concerning nature and the built environment. 322 Contributors Tony O’Dempsey is a GIS and remote sensing expert as well as an amateur naturalist, and has been participating in NParks fauna surveys in Singapore for the past 15 years. He has a keen interest in the history of development in Singapore and its effects on the natural environment and is currently undertaking a study of the land use history of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Fiona L.P. Tan is an Assistant Archivist at the National Archives of Singapore. Her prior attachments with various local museums and libraries has cultivated an interest in the history of museums and nature in colonial Singapore. Her publications include “Of Birds and Beasties,” in Camping and Tramping through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya, ed.Tan Li-Jen and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa (Singapore: NUS Museum, 2011). Nigel P.Taylor is the Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. He began his career at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as a horticultural taxonomist and led a team that saw Kew Gardens inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. He is currently working on the same objective for the Singapore Botanic Gardens. He is the author of six books and more than 200 publications. John van Wyhe is a historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore, where he oversees the Wallace Online Project (http://wallaceonline .org/). He has published eight books and lectures and broadcasts around the world. ...