ISBN: 9789004394186 - conflict, identity, and state formation in east timor 2000 - 2017 (verhandelingen van het koninklijk instituut voor taal-, land, band 311) (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJames 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 expenditur.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…