Chasing Archipelagic Dreams

The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965

David R. Saunders (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2024
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7774-5 (ISBN)

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In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams, David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not result in the decolonization of the territory. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, international anti-colonialism interacted with regional competition over Sabah to result in a paradoxical increase of British power and influence on the ground. Meanwhile, ethnic, social, and political heterogeneity in Sabah contributed to fragmentation and disunity, undermining the development of a local anti-colonial movement. Instead, a class of influential local elites seized power as competing attempts by the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaya to incorporate the territory into their respective archipelagic spheres grew in strength. Due to these local and international rivalries, Saunders argues, Sabah's eventual merger with the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 prompted an extension of colonial-style rule, resource extraction, the suppression of local autonomy, and the imposition of an externally-configured national identity.

Chasing Archipelagic Dreams underscores the significance of regional rivalries in the South China Sea and highlights the fate of subaltern communities bisected by (post)colonial borders.

David R. Saunders is a historian of decolonization and state formation in Southeast Asia. He has published on maritime geopolitical disputes, colonial commissions of inquiry, and anti-colonial movements. Beyond history, David is a photographer specializing in urban and street photography, documenting Hong Kong's architectural, neon, and built heritage

Prologue: Down the Kinabatang

Introduction: The Emergence of a Plan

Part One: Resurgent Empire, Fragmented Identities

1. From Company State to Crown Colony

2. The (Re-)Emergence of Anticolonial Voices

Part Two: Vying Archipelagos

3. The Rise of the Kalimantan Utara Movement

4. Maphilindo, the Confederation That Never Was

5. Creating Malaysia, "A Shotgun Colonial Wedding"

Conclusion: Afterlives

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	12 Halftones, black and white; 3 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5017-7774-2 / 1501777742
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7774-5 / 9781501777745
Zustand	Neuware