Chapter 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat 2013 Lucy Davis The outbreak of SARS in early 2003 provided the Singapore government with an opportunity to renew a historic obsession with hygiene,…
Singapore has a unique ban on the keeping of cats in public housing. The formal stance taken by the government on this is: “Cats are not allowed in flats. They are generally difficult to contain within the flat. When…