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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TherearemanypeoplewhomImustthankfortheirvariousformsofassistance duringthecreationofthisbook.IwouldliketothankDouglasLewis, AndrewDawson,AnthonyMarcus,ThomasReuter,andtwoanonymous reviewers for their comments on drafts of this text. I would also like to thank Richard Sutcliffe, Claire Knowles, Simone Blair, and Tanya King, whoamongstotherthings,commentedonchaptersofthisbook. There are many people in Malaysia I must thank for their assistance inmyresearch.AmongsttheseareAbdulMohaiminAyus,AbdulRahman Othman, Ann James, Augustine Julian, Chua Siew Eng, Edmund Bon, ElizabethWong,EricPaulsen,HarisbinMohamedIbrahim,IreneXavier, JahaberdeenYMMohamedYunoos,KhalidJaafar,KuaKiaSoong,Latheefa Koya, Leonard Teoh, Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, Moganambal Murugappan, MasjalizaHamzah,MustaphaMa,S.Nagarajan,NoraniOthman,Norhayati Kaprawi, Father O.C. Lim, P. Uthayakumar, Patricia Martinez, Salbiah Ahmad,ShanonShah,SharmilaSekaran,SivarasaRasiah,SoniaRandhawa, SumitMandal,SyedHusinAli,SaidZahari,XavierJayakumar,YeohSeng GuanandZaitun“Toni”Kasim.ThanksmustalsogotothestaffofDaim and Gamany (advocates and solicitors), Sisters in Islam, Suara Rakyat Malaysia,andtheseorganizations’staffforthevariousformsofassistance theykindlygavetome. Thanks must go to my parents Lee Eng Hua and Barbara Lee and likewise must I thank my brother Marcus and his wife Elizabeth Miller. AndthanksarealsoowedtoSarahThwaitesforhereditorialassistanceand allthesupportandencouragementneededforcompletingthisbook. ThecompletionofthisbookwasmadepossiblebyaFellowshipfrom the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) which I spent in the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent in 2009. TheinitialresearchwasmadepossiblebyanAustralianPostgraduateAward thatsupportedmethroughoutmyPh.D.studieswhichIundertookatthe SchoolofAnthropology,GeographyandEnvironmentalStudies,University 00 I&AM Prelims.indd 9 4/22/10 9:28:18 AM x Contents ofMelbournebetween2003and2006.Subsequentresearchwasundertaken in2007and2008whileIwasalecturerintheSchoolofArtsandSocial Sciences,MonashUniversity,andin2009,whileafellowattheInternational InstituteofAsianStudies(IIAS).Mythanksgotoalltheinstitutionsthat supported me in the course of the making of this book.Thanks also go to Südostasian Aktuell for permission to reprint portions of my article, “BarisanNasionalPoliticalDominanceandtheGeneralElectionsof2004 inMalaysia”(no.2[2007]:39–66).TheseportionsappearinChapters2 and8ofthisbook. x Acknowledgements 00 I&AM Prelims.indd 10 4/22/10 9:28:18 AM ...