This article examines how the geography of foreign occupation changed in British Malaya between 1895 and 1960. In particular, the article reveals how notions related to enclosure and confinement influenced the introduction of new territorial and spatial categories in British Malaya that enclosed the region's landscape and natural environment while simultaneously concentrating the region's diverse population into racially and economically segregated communities in the Malay interior. This geography, crafted during the early colonial period, came to have particular significance in the period following World War Two. At that time, during the so-called Malayan Emergency, the British administration forcibly resettled hundreds of thousands of Malaya's rural inhabitants into highly regulated and repressive state spaces, known as New Villages, White and Black Areas, and Regrouping Areas. Utilizing a mixture of secondary sources, archival materials, and digital mapping technologies, this article shows how the creation of these new Emergency spaces were not novel but were a continuation of longstanding patterns of land control in the colony that remade Malaya's natural environment on a vast scale.

本文考察了 1895 年至 1960 年间英属马来亚的外国占领地理如何变化。特别是，本文揭示了与围栏和禁闭相关的概念如何影响英属马来亚引入新的领土和空间类别，包括该地区的景观和自然环境，同时将该地区的多样化人口集中到马来内陆的种族和经济隔离社区。这种在早期殖民时期精心打造的地理环境，在第二次世界大战之后的时期变得尤为重要。当时，在所谓的马来亚紧急状态期间，英国政府强行将数十万马来亚农村居民重新安置到受到高度管制和压制的国家空间，即新村，白区和黑区，以及重组区。本文结合二手资料、档案材料和数字地图技术，展示了这些新应急空间的创建如何并不新颖，而是殖民地长期土地控制模式的延续，在广阔的土地上重塑了马来亚的自然环境。规模。