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Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah Amid the End of Empire, 1945-1965

Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah Amid the End of Empire, 1945-1965

Saunders, David R.

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General Political ScienceImmigration & RefugeesSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1501777734
ISBN13: 9781501777738
Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
Published: Dec 15 2024
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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