| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 311 |
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Power and place in Southeast Asia ; Volume 8 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; v. 311.
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Power and place in Southeast Asia ; v. 8.
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| Contents |
1. The enigma of the 2006 crisis -- 2. An archaeology of conflict -- 3. The 2006 crisis in context -- 4. Mystics, messiahs and machismo : MAGS and veterans' groups -- 5. Gangs or glee clubs? : urban Dili-based groups -- 6. Conflict and resilience in a squatter settlement -- 7. Implications for peacebuilding -- 8. The foundations of a clientelist state -- 9. Conflict and state formation : an integrated understanding |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Timor-Leste
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Timor-Leste -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004014555
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Timor-Leste -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Timor-Leste
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004396791 |
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9004396799 |
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