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

Scambary, James, author

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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.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Timor-Leste. / Timor-Leste Politics and government 2002- / Timor-Leste Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9004394184, 9789004394186

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS649.7.S23 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE