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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789004394186
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-04-39418-6
- Verlag: Brill
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.05.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
- Serie: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 567 g
- Seiten: 252
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 236 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt