Coercing Mobility: Territory and Displacement in the Politics of Southeast Asian Muslim Movements

This introductory article explores the recent turn in Asian history towards work that foregrounds mobility, circulation, and cosmopolitan connections, decentring colonial territoriality and postcolonial geo-bodies as the primary units of historical analysis. In it, and to frame our own special issue...

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Published inItinerario Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 330 - 344
Main Authors Gedacht, Joshua, Malhi, Amrita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2021
Subjects
Asian history
Colonialism
Colonies & territories
Hegemony
Historical analysis
Introduction
Mobility
Muslims
Pilgrims
Politics
Postcolonialism
Power
Territoriality
Violence
Southeast Asia
Singapore
coercion
Southeast Asia
Islam
enclosure
connections
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Summary:This introductory article explores the recent turn in Asian history towards work that foregrounds mobility, circulation, and cosmopolitan connections, decentring colonial territoriality and postcolonial geo-bodies as the primary units of historical analysis. In it, and to frame our own special issue on Muslim movements in Southeast Asia, we point out that some of this mobility was coerced via projects of state territorialisation that actively displaced select, targeted Muslim actors whose presence in the polity was deemed problematic by states seeking to consolidate their power. Echoes of this displacement can be traced in the politics of the Muslim movements that these actors created, as we argue in this article and throughout the special issue.
ISSN:0165-1153
2041-2827
DOI:10.1017/S0165115321000231