Sabah from the Ground : : The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival.

Sabah's 2020 election was Malaysia's pandemic election. While attention has centred on the impact the election had on the increase of COVID-19, this collection brings together scholars, journalists and social scientists who were on the ground on Sabah to analyse what happened, why, and the...

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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Bernard Giluk Dompok
  • Foreword by Salleh Said Keruak
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Sabah Goes to the Polls by Bridget Welsh, Benjamin Y.H. Loh and Vilashini Somiah
  • PART 1: CONTEXT
  • Chapter 1. Warisan Plus in Government: A Retrospective from the Campaign and Beyond by Chan Tsu Chong
  • Chapter 2. The 1963 Malaysia Agreement: Pakatan's Failed Restoration and Perikatan's Fledgling Initiatives by Johan Arriffin Samad
  • Chapter 3. The Unemployment Problem during the Warisan Plus Administration by James Alin and Marcilla Malasius
  • Chapter 4. Voices of Civil Society Organisations in Sabah Politics by Beverly Joeman, Nelson Dino and Asraf Sharafi
  • PART 2: NARRATIVES
  • Chapter 5. Incessant Political Narratives: Perilous Migrants and the Treacherous East by Vilashini Somiah and Aslam Abd Jalil
  • Chapter 6. Sabah's Youth Talk Politics: Ethnic Identity, Illegal Migrants &amp
  • Religious Freedom by Trixie Tangit
  • PART 3: CAMPAIGNING
  • Chapter 7. Key Players in Sabah's 'Keroyok' Politics by Philip Golingai
  • Chapter 8. 'Don't Jump, Time to Work': The Political Maturity of Sabahan Digital Spaces through the 2020 State Election by Benjamin Y.H. Loh and Yi Jian Ho
  • Chapter 9. Sabah Style amidst Uncertainty: Campaigning in the 2020 Sabah State Polls by Bridget Welsh
  • Chapter 10. Undi Sabah: Igniting Youth Participation in Sabah's Democracy by Mahirah Marzuki, Auzellea Kristin Mozihim and Fiqah Roslan
  • PART 4: RESULTS
  • Chapter 11. A Holistic Society-Centred Analysis of the Sabah Election 2020 Results: Voters, Voting and Trajectories of Survival and Change by Bridget Welsh
  • Chapter 12. Chinese Sabahans in the 2020 Sabah State Election by Oh Ei Sun and Amanda Yeo Yan Yin.
  • Chapter 13. Kadazan-Dusun Politics: The Persistence of Personality Politics, Patronage and Ethnonationalism by Tony Paridi Bagang and Arnold Puyok
  • Chapter 14. Islam and Muslim Politics in Sabah's 2020 State Election by Mohd Rahimin Mustafa
  • Conclusion: Sabah's Covid-19 Election Aftermath: Beyond New (and Old) Political Alignments by Bridget Welsh, Benjamin Y.H. Loh and Vilashini Somiah
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors.