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X-WR-CALNAME:"Air-con chao ta already”: Migrant Domesticities\, Citizen F
 uturities and the Sensuous Anxieties of Air-Conditioning in Singapore
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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Xinyu Guan\, (PhD
  Candidate\, Anthropology\, Cornell University)\, who will discuss air con
 ditioning in Singapore.\n\nThis Gatty Lecture will take place at the The K
 ahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions\, conta
 ct seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\nAbout the Talk\n\nMy talk explores citizenshi
 p as a form of landlordship and sensuous policing of noncitizen bodies in 
 Singapore. Singapore’s much-lauded state-constructed housing program\, u
 nder the Housing & Development Board (HDB)\, enables homeownership for mor
 e than 70% of the city-state’s citizenry. However\, more than 360\,000 p
 eople\, mostly working-class migrants from surrounding countries\, rent fr
 om Singapore citizens who are owners of HDB apartments\, with little by wa
 y of tenants’ rights or protections. I discuss how these rental situatio
 ns provide (often much needed) extra income for citizen-landlords\, and ho
 use the migrants whose labor maintains the social and dietary infrastructu
 res of HDB housing. The promise of egalitarian citizenship through mass ho
 meownership in Singapore belies the vast power differential between citize
 n-landlords and migrant-tenants. Landlords dictate the daily routines of t
 enants to maximize rental extraction\, reducing tenants’ bodies to abstr
 acted quantities of space and time. I examine air-conditioning as an every
 day site of discipline\, contestation and “bordering” (de Genova 2017)
  of bodies and domesticities in these rental situations. I consider how th
 e sensuous\, atmospheric interfaces between citizens and noncitizens shift
  the stakes of citizenship and the right to the city in Singapore.\n\nAbou
 t the Speaker\n\nXinyu Guan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthro
 pology at Cornell University\, with graduate minors in the Southeast Asia 
 Program and the Feminist\, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. His work 
 examines the logics of citizenship by which queer and migrant communities 
 are incorporated into state-constructed housing in Singapore. Xinyu’s re
 search has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, the Hu Shih Fell
 owship\, and the Global PhD Grant.
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:"Air-con chao ta already”: Migrant Domesticities\, Citizen Futuri
 ties and the Sensuous Anxieties of Air-Conditioning in Singapore
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 ant-domesticities-citizen-futurities-and-the-sensuous-anxieties-of-air-con
 ditioning-in-singapore
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