Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017: 311 (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 311)

James Scambary

ISBN 10: 9004394184 / ISBN 13: 9789004394186

Published by BRILL, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017: 311 (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 311)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004394184
• ISBN 13: 9789004394186
• Binding: Book
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 2H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 2 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

James Scambary, PhD (2015, Australian National University), is a research fellow at Deakin University. His publications include (2015), ‘In search of white elephants: the political economy of resource income expenditure in Timor-Leste’ Critical Asian Studies, 47 (2): 283-308.