Conflict, identity, and state formation in East Timor 2000-2017 /

Conflict, identity, and state formation in East Timor 2000-2017 /

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Author / Creator:Scambary, James, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Description:xii, 252 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 311, 1572-1892
Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 8
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 311.
Power and place in Southeast Asia ; v. 8.
Subject:
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Timor-Leste.
Timor-Leste -- Politics and government -- 2002-
Timor-Leste -- Social conditions.
Timor-Leste.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11921196
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ISBN:9004394184
9789004394186
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.
Summary:In 'Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017', James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts groups, has been a constant feature of East Timor's post-independence landscape. A focus on statebuilding, however, in academic discourse has largely overlooked this conflict, and the informal networks that drive Timorese politics and society. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Scambary documents the range of different cultural and historical dynamics and identities that drive conflict, and by which local conflicts and non-state actors became linked to national conflict, and laid the foundations of a clientelist state.

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