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work_n4cdi57q2ja5bd357tfyvhqeti	Daniel P. S. Goh	Capital and the Transfiguring Monumentality of Raffles Hotel	2010	19	.pdf	application/pdf	10799	1151	67	published sources, I analyze the Hotel as a changing cultural form in the historical transformation of Singapore by the circuits of global capital, from imperial capitalism, through the Hotel took the dominant form of white male domesticity in British Singapore, nostalgic authenticity in the postcolonial period and cosmopolitan hybridity in the current global phase. KEY WORDS: Capitalism; development state; monument; hotels; Postcolonial; cultural form Raffles' establishment of Singapore as a colonial entrepôt and the Anglicized postcolonial ruling elite's transformation of a wrecked post-War city into an export-oriented and, therefore, Singapore as a 'mobile city' traversed by the flows of capital embodied in travelers, artifacts and cultural forms. However, at Raffles Hotel, colonial domesticity is transfigured by the mobility of transfiguration in the new transnational networks of capital, the Hotel is a space that (2001) Conserving colonial heritage: Raffles Hotel in Singapore, International Journal of	./cache/work_n4cdi57q2ja5bd357tfyvhqeti.pdf	./txt/work_n4cdi57q2ja5bd357tfyvhqeti.txt