Port cities and hinterlands: A comparative study of Singapore and Calcutta |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Kaohsiung Marine University, No. 142, Haijhuan Road, Nanzih District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC;2. Department of Maritime and Logistics Management, Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia;1. Department of Logistics Management, Business School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China;2. Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;3. School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;1. School of Transportation Management, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Dalian 116026, PR China;2. Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China;3. Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, 210096, PR China;1. Centre for Maritime Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore 118414, Singapore;2. Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore 138632, Singapore;3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyses the evolution of Singapore and Calcutta from colonial port cities to a post-colonial city-state and a city within a state, respectively. It will examine how the historical trajectories of these cities were determined and complicated by their maritime character and evolving relations with their respective hinterlands. Singapore had a fluid (literally and metaphorically) hinterland and its economic, social and cultural orientations were defined by the maritime trade that it conducted and the networks that were developed as a result of its commercial activities. The modern state of Singapore, which embraces the world as its ‘hinterland’, remains in essence a port city – subjected to global flows, multi-cultural influences and fully integrated with and dependent on regional and global commercial networks. Calcutta's position as port city, too, grew out of empire and imperial trade, but unlike Singapore, it had a clearly defined and dominant hinterland – Bengal. Its identity as a Bengali city is therefore unmistakable and it clearly shares in the strengths and weaknesses of its immediate social, economic and political hinterland, especially in its post-colonial incarnation, when it shifted from being an imperial city to a regional city. |
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