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POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

This article draws on empirical data and ethnographic evidence as a springboard to explore issues affecting narratives and observations made during the 2011 Sarawak State Election. It throws light on ways in which communities and cultures at the periphery of the Malaysian nation state grapple with t...

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Main Author: Poline, Bala
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2024
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46929/1/POLITICAL%20BREAKTHROUGH%20IN%20A%20RURAL.pdf
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https://doi. org/10.21315/km2024.42.2.7
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spelling my.unimas.ir-469292024-12-17T05:58:36Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46929/ POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE Poline, Bala H Social Sciences (General) This article draws on empirical data and ethnographic evidence as a springboard to explore issues affecting narratives and observations made during the 2011 Sarawak State Election. It throws light on ways in which communities and cultures at the periphery of the Malaysian nation state grapple with the potentials and consequences of elections in the process of economic, political and social transformation. Eschewing aspects of candidates’ selections, electoral campaign process and actual voting behaviour of individual voters, the main analysis is of the formulation of local understandings and meanings of the state elections in two rural settlements of Ba’ Kelalan and Bario located close to the border between Sarawak and Kalimantan. This article suggests that an account of their experiences is a necessity in order to understand what functions and whose interest elections serve, and most importantly what election actually does and means within particular circumstances of local history. As a political phenomenon, elections can look different from the perspective of those close to the centre of power in contrast to those with little power within a political hierarchy. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46929/1/POLITICAL%20BREAKTHROUGH%20IN%20A%20RURAL.pdf Poline, Bala (2024) POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE. Kajian Malaysia, 42 (2). pp. 139-50. ISSN 0127-4082 http://web.usm.my/km/ https://doi. org/10.21315/km2024.42.2.7
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Poline, Bala
POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
description This article draws on empirical data and ethnographic evidence as a springboard to explore issues affecting narratives and observations made during the 2011 Sarawak State Election. It throws light on ways in which communities and cultures at the periphery of the Malaysian nation state grapple with the potentials and consequences of elections in the process of economic, political and social transformation. Eschewing aspects of candidates’ selections, electoral campaign process and actual voting behaviour of individual voters, the main analysis is of the formulation of local understandings and meanings of the state elections in two rural settlements of Ba’ Kelalan and Bario located close to the border between Sarawak and Kalimantan. This article suggests that an account of their experiences is a necessity in order to understand what functions and whose interest elections serve, and most importantly what election actually does and means within particular circumstances of local history. As a political phenomenon, elections can look different from the perspective of those close to the centre of power in contrast to those with little power within a political hierarchy.
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author Poline, Bala
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title POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
title_short POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
title_full POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
title_fullStr POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
title_full_unstemmed POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN A RURAL COMMUNITY DURING THE 2011 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
title_sort political breakthrough in a rural community during the 2011 sarawak state election : an ethnographic perspective
publisher Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate 2024
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46929/1/POLITICAL%20BREAKTHROUGH%20IN%20A%20RURAL.pdf
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http://web.usm.my/km/
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