There are many intrinsic and tangible benefits in the government being seen as an active promoter of CSR in various facets of Singapore life. This paper argues that the CSR drive in Singapore coheres with the government’s pragmatic approach to governance broadly conceived. However, CSR is too often seen as another form of corporate governance. For instance, Singapore’s unique tripartite labor relations have recently emphasized a CSR gloss while CSR is also touted as being beneficial for corporate governance as well as improving the competitiveness of companies and improving the quality of life. The government sees itself as a promoter and practitioner of CSR. This paper assesses the state’s active encouragement of CSR in various facets of economic life in Singapore. The government supports the CSR endeavour with an instrumental bent, where CSR ideas and concepts are adapted, incorporated, and promoted in various sectors of the economy. As a trade-dependent industrializing economy, the economic development drive coupled with the need for international expansion has made it necessary for Singapore businesses to be cognizant of the growing CSR movement in the western, industrialized world. A key impetus for the nascent CSR movement in twenty-first century Singapore is the economic imperative. Laced with Vonnegutian humor and whimsy, the interview provides an overview of the ways “Vonnegut addressed myriad social and environmental problems, from pollution, racial and economic injustice and war to dehumanizing technologies and ecological collapse.This paper seeks to examine the putative growth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Singapore. Most recently, Jarvis’s interview with Chuck Augello, “Citizen Kurt,” was published in “The Daily Vonnegut” on Feb. Eckenrode and Dan Crocker with Jarvis’s help, “High School Journalist, Promoter, Jester – Kurt Vonnegut In the Shortridge Daily Echo, 1937-1940” provides Vonnegut fans with a 109-page collection of the writer’s earliest publications.Ĭreated in collaboration with Digital Indy, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, and Shortridge High School, the archival collection has already garnered more than 2,000 views in its first weeks. Principally collected, curated, cataloged, arranged and introduced by Vonnegut scholars M. She discussed Vonnegut’s nonfiction writings about vital human communities and place, focusing on his rich but complicated relationship with Barnstable, the quiet village on Cape Cod, where Vonnegut lived with his family and wrote prolifically for nearly two decades.Īlso in January, an important archival Vonnegut project Jarvis assisted with was published on. Jarvis gave a brief reading from and talk on “Lucky Mud & Other Foma” on Jan. Donahue, who was one of the last journalists to interview Kurt Vonnegut before he died in 2007. 23, Jarvis appeared on Northeast Public Radio’s “The Roundtable,” an award-winning nationally recognized show hosted by acclaimed broadcast journalist Joe Donahue and features news, interviews and in-depth discussions of music, books, arts and culture “to explore the many facets of the human condition with civility, respect and responsibility.” Jarvis was especially honored to speak with Mr. She’s also found time to contribute to an important archival collection of the Hoosier icon’s high school journalism. Jarvis has been busy doing podcasts, interviews and community events. Since the publication of “Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship,” Dr. Department of English Professor Christina Jarvis continues to share Kurt Vonnegut’s social justice and environmental legacies with new audiences.
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