The Politics of Disease and Disorder in Post-War Malaya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9083947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T N Harper (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-113 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4634 • E-ISSN: 1474-0680 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022463400001971 |
| OpenAlex | W2128605381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
It has become a commonplace of Malayan historiography that the period following the end of the Pacific War witnessed the establishment of a pattern of political life which has persisted in its main features into the present decade. Existing accounts have focused around the restructuring of the British presence in Malaya under a military administration and the introduction of, and opposition to, the Malayan Union scheme in 1946 and the Federal structure which succeeded it in April 1948. These years saw the emergence of an ethnically based nationalist movement and the defeat of a radical challenge to its predominance. The communal and insurrectionary violence which was a feature of the period has been represented as a constraint to subsequent political action — as a limit to what the structure of Malaya's pluralism could tolerate — and the constitutional struggles as a lost opportunity to effect its transformation. Whilst it is hard to exaggerate the importance of these events in shaping the landscape of Malaysian politics, there is a sense in which the sophistication of these political and constitutional preoccupations suggests uneven development within the historical writing as a whole. The social context which stimulated change, and the breadth of the local response which dignified it, has been marginalized in many accounts. There has been a tendency to conceive the state system and the colonial presence in Malaya within the bounds of a paradigm governed by the constitutional settlement, and the various phases of insurrection and political change as primarily the products of the subversive or nationalist imagination
Historiography · Nationalism · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Maritime Security and History · Military History and Strategy
Colonial Policy and Practice
Industrial Conflict in Malaya
Colonial planning during World War II
Financial policies in post‐war Malaya
Women, Politics, and Change. The Kaum Ibu Umno, Malaysia, 1945-1972
A Social Survey of Singapore
Economic Development of Modern Malaya
Health Services and the Legitimation of the Colonial State
The Post-1945 Food Shortage in British Malaya
British Planning for Post-war Malaya
British Politics and Social Policy during the Second World War
Red Star Over Malaya. Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-1946
Malaya Upside Down
The Malayan Union
British Policy and Malay Politics During the Malayan Union Experiment, 1942-48
Economic Development of Modern Malaya
British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943-1946
Economic Reorganization and the Slump in South and Southeast Asia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |