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Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
This book explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the plan... more This book explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet’s richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation exp ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40(3), 2009
Sayyidi 'strangers' and 'stranger-kings', borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi 'strangers' and 'stranger-kings', borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from 'the last stand of autonomies' to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West. The pre-eminent 'stranger' sayyid The sāda (plural for sayyid) of Hadhrami Arab origin exerted an influence vastly disproportionate to their size as a community in maritime Southeast Asia. 1 Whether immigrant or locally born creole (muwallad), they shared an Alawi identity 2 based on claims of descendence from the Prophet Muhammad, which set them apart as nonautochthonous and, hence, 'foreign'. This paper sets out to understand the preeminence of the Hadhrami sāda using the conceptual model of Southeast Asia's 'men of prowess', coterminous with the more broadly observed phenomenon of 'stranger' adventurers and 'stranger-kings'.
Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past, 2012
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1973
New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 2009
... & anno. AH Hill, First published in 1969, Singapore, 1969; Singapore: Oxford Universi... more ... & anno. AH Hill, First published in 1969, Singapore, 1969; Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 76. 42 M. Archer, Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), 1962, pp. ... 46 Archer, Natural History Drawings, pp. ...
Global Environment, 2012
The Japanese occupation of Malaysia highlights the interrelation between war and the natural envi... more The Japanese occupation of Malaysia highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism. By disrupting the economy and emasculating the forestry service, the Japanese military administration removed the restraints on forest invasion by the hungry and landless and simultaneously privileged Japanese cooperate business, which engaged in indiscriminate exploitation, ostensibly for the war effort. Despite the best efforts of the Japanese scientific wing, the breakdown of forest management wrought havoc on environment and health. Ironically, postwar restitution of forestry was based on two by-products of the war: the Malayan Uniform System of silviculture and new technologies of harvesting and transportation, which set independent Malaysia on the trajectory of unsustainable harvesting. But equally, the retreat to the forest of the hungry, the landless and the disaffected bred a new awareness...
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, 2012
The East India Company and the Natural World, 2015
Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia, 2015
Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia, 2011
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from ‘the last stand of autonomies’ to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from ‘the last stand of autonomies’ to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West.
The East India Company and the Natural World, 2014
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, 2012
The paper traces the origin of the term 'padri' in the context of nineteenth-century Islam in Su... more The paper traces the origin of the term 'padri' in the context of nineteenth-century Islam in Sumatra.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
This book explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the plan... more This book explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet’s richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation exp ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40(3), 2009
Sayyidi 'strangers' and 'stranger-kings', borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi 'strangers' and 'stranger-kings', borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from 'the last stand of autonomies' to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West. The pre-eminent 'stranger' sayyid The sāda (plural for sayyid) of Hadhrami Arab origin exerted an influence vastly disproportionate to their size as a community in maritime Southeast Asia. 1 Whether immigrant or locally born creole (muwallad), they shared an Alawi identity 2 based on claims of descendence from the Prophet Muhammad, which set them apart as nonautochthonous and, hence, 'foreign'. This paper sets out to understand the preeminence of the Hadhrami sāda using the conceptual model of Southeast Asia's 'men of prowess', coterminous with the more broadly observed phenomenon of 'stranger' adventurers and 'stranger-kings'.
Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past, 2012
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1973
New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 2009
... & anno. AH Hill, First published in 1969, Singapore, 1969; Singapore: Oxford Universi... more ... & anno. AH Hill, First published in 1969, Singapore, 1969; Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 76. 42 M. Archer, Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), 1962, pp. ... 46 Archer, Natural History Drawings, pp. ...
Global Environment, 2012
The Japanese occupation of Malaysia highlights the interrelation between war and the natural envi... more The Japanese occupation of Malaysia highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism. By disrupting the economy and emasculating the forestry service, the Japanese military administration removed the restraints on forest invasion by the hungry and landless and simultaneously privileged Japanese cooperate business, which engaged in indiscriminate exploitation, ostensibly for the war effort. Despite the best efforts of the Japanese scientific wing, the breakdown of forest management wrought havoc on environment and health. Ironically, postwar restitution of forestry was based on two by-products of the war: the Malayan Uniform System of silviculture and new technologies of harvesting and transportation, which set independent Malaysia on the trajectory of unsustainable harvesting. But equally, the retreat to the forest of the hungry, the landless and the disaffected bred a new awareness...
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, 2012
The East India Company and the Natural World, 2015
Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia, 2015
Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia, 2011
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from ‘the last stand of autonomies’ to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migrat... more Sayyidi ‘strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’, borne on the eighteenth-century wave of Hadhrami migration to the Malay-Indonesian region, boosted indigenous traditions of charismatic leadership at a time of intense political challenge posed by Western expansion. The extemporary credentials and personal talents which made for sāda exceptionalism and lent continuity to Southeast Asian state-making traditions are discussed with particular reference to Perak, Siak and Pontianak. These case studies, representative of discrete sāda responses to specific circumstances, mark them out as lead actors in guiding the transition from ‘the last stand of autonomies’ to a new era of pragmatic collaboration with the West.
The East India Company and the Natural World, 2014
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, 2012
The paper traces the origin of the term 'padri' in the context of nineteenth-century Islam in Su... more The paper traces the origin of the term 'padri' in the context of nineteenth-century Islam in Sumatra.