| Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017 Contributor(s): Scambary, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004394184 ISBN-13: 9789004394186 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $127.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Series: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |