Nation Building And National Identity In Timor Leste

Author : Michael Leach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315311647

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Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste by Michael Leach Pdf

Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial occupations, and into the post-independence era. It charts the evolution of the idea of an East Timorese nation: its origins, its sources, and its competitors in traditional understandings of political community, and the distinct colonial visions imposed by Portugal or Indonesia. The author analyses the evolution of ideas of collective identity under the long era of Portuguese colonial rule, and through the 24-year struggle for independence from Indonesia from 1975 to 1999. Reflecting the contested history of the territory, these include successive attempts to define its members as colonial subjects in a wider ‘pluri-racial’ Portuguese empire, as citizens in an ‘integrated’ province of the Republic of Indonesia – and, of course, as a nation that demanded its right to self-determination. Finally, the host of nation-building tensions and fault lines that emerged after the restoration of independence in 2002 are discussed. Examining the history of debates and conflict over national identity, national history, cultural heritage, language policy, and relationships between distinct regions, generations, and language groups, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian studies, nationalism studies, and international and community development.

Author : Catherine E. Arthur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319987828

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Political Symbols and National Identity in Timor-Leste by Catherine E. Arthur Pdf

This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste. It develops a Modernist approach to nations and nationalism by incorporating Bourdieusian theories of symbolic capital and conflict, to examine how national identity has been constructed and represented in political symbols. Taking case studies of flags, monuments, national heroes, and street art, it critically analyses how a diverse population has interpreted and (re)constructed its national identity throughout the first decade of independence, and how the transition from a context of conflict to peace has influenced such popular imaginings. By examining these processes of identification with a wide range of symbols, the book discusses the numerous challenges that this young nation-state still faces, including victimhood and recognition, democratization and electoral politics, the political role of cosmology and spirituality, and post-colonial generational differences and divisions.

Author : Michael Leach,James Scambary,Matthew Clarke,Heather Wallace,Simon Feeny
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : 3034309899

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Attitudes to National Identity in Melanesia and Timor-Leste by Michael Leach,James Scambary,Matthew Clarke,Heather Wallace,Simon Feeny Pdf

This book examines the attitudes of tertiary students in Melanesia and Timor-Leste to national identity and key issues of nation-building. Their views are pivotal to understanding the challenges of building a more cohesive sense of national identity and political community in these states. Melanesian countries show a relatively high degree of similarity in their responses to the surveys on national identity carried out by the authors, but with key differences attributable to particular historical, regional or linguistic legacies of colonial rule. The ongoing importance of traditional authority and kastom/adat in conceptions of political community and identity is evident in all four case study sites, and in each case matches indicators of respect for modern state authority. Although different for each site, the authors' findings also illustrate the importance of students' geographical region of origin, language orientation and gender in explaining key differences in attitudes towards national identity. The book demonstrates that strong levels of national identification and pride persist among the future leaders of the countries surveyed, even in the face of ongoing regional and linguistic divisions and weak state capacity, suggesting a strong potential basis for nation-building agendas if wider challenges of democratic performance, service provision and regional development can be addressed over time.

Author : Andrea Katalin Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135228842

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Timor Leste by Andrea Katalin Molnar Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the historical roots of the current challenges to nation-building by reviewing the Indonesian occupation; guerrilla warfare by the Timorese against the occupiers; the politics leading up to the United Nations’ popular consultation and the vote for independence in 2002. Explaining the structure of the government and its parliamentary system, this book highlights the problems and historical and cultural underpinnings of the challenges Timor Leste faces in building a stable viable nation. The author presents a synopsis of selected issues including: language, truth and reconciliation, the Catholic Church’s political activism, internal security problems, the ‘politics of oil’, and the fact that violent conflicts, from 2005 to date, have made it necessary for the United Nation’s peacekeeping forces to return. Thus far, the book argues, Timor Leste’s nation-building efforts have been hampered by the dynamic interaction of number of national and international factors. The first comprehensive political and cultural history of East Timor to date, this book fills a gap and will be an important single reference resource for students and researchers in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science.

Author : Vandra Harris,Andrew Goldsmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136806698

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Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste by Vandra Harris,Andrew Goldsmith Pdf

Despite Timor-Leste’s high expectations when it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, the country is ranked among the least developed countries in the world. It has found itself at the centre of international attention in the last decade, with one of the biggest interventions in UN history, as well as receiving amongst the highest per capita rates of bilateral assistance in the Asia-Pacific region. This book draws together the perspectives of practitioners, policy-makers and academics on the international efforts to rebuild one of the world’s newest nations. The contributors consider issues of peace-building, security and justice sector reform as well as human security in Timor-Leste, locating these in the broader context of building nation, stability and development. The book includes two demographic studies that can be used to critically examine the nation’s possible future. Engaging in deliberate consideration of both practical and theoretical complexities of international interventions, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of Development, Security and Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Maj Nygaard-Christensen,Angie Bexley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fieldwork (Educational method)
ISBN : 8776946363

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Fieldwork in Timor-Leste by Maj Nygaard-Christensen,Angie Bexley Pdf

Author : Judith Bovensiepen
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760462536

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The Promise of Prosperity by Judith Bovensiepen Pdf

For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.

Author : Damian Grenfell,Mayra Walsh,Januario Soares,Sofie Anselmie,Annie Sloman,Victoria Stead,Anna Trembath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nation-building
ISBN : 0980553164

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Nation-building Across the Urban and Rural in Timor-Leste by Damian Grenfell,Mayra Walsh,Januario Soares,Sofie Anselmie,Annie Sloman,Victoria Stead,Anna Trembath Pdf

Author : P. Sercombe,R. Tupas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137455536

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Language, Education and Nation-building by P. Sercombe,R. Tupas Pdf

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.

Author : Aurel Croissant,Olli Hellmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108495745

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Stateness and Democracy in East Asia by Aurel Croissant,Olli Hellmann Pdf

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Author : Frédéric Durand
Publisher : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782956447085

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East-Timor by Frédéric Durand Pdf

This book is the direct outcome of a panel on Timor-Leste entitled «How to build a new nation?» and organized in September 2007 in the framework of the EUROSEAS Congress in Naples. Among the more than 40 panels held, Timor-Leste's had been remarkably dense, with 20 presentations given by American, Australian, Brazilian, East-Timorese, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish researchers. At the time of this congress, the major event of 2006, which two years after continued to be called “the crisis”, was still foremost in people's minds, conversations, and researches. While other events or forewarning episodes had taken place before that date, no doubt that the crisis of 2006/2007 had finally prove to be a turning point, for the country itself, and maybe even more so for international actors. Though presented at first as a United Nations' success story, especially when the territory was under UN management from October 1999 (withdrawal of the Indonesian army) until 20 May 2002 (independence of the country), the unity of Timor-Leste was then in peril, deceiving the expectations that had prevailed during the resistance years. Its climax was the conflict between “those from the West” and “those from the East” (“Loromonu-Lorosae” or Firaku-Kaladi), and a violence which caused a wave of internal refugees (around 150,000 IDP- Internally Displaced People). Beyond the causes and effects of this political and military crisis which had then spread to civil society, the “crisis” had also directly or indirectly revealed a certain number of dysfunctions, notably the deficiencies of the UN preparations of independence and of the capacity of East Timorese governing bodies to manage and organize the country.

Author : Andrew McWilliam,Elizabeth G. Traube
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862601

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Land and Life in Timor-Leste by Andrew McWilliam,Elizabeth G. Traube Pdf

Following the historic 1999 popular referendum, East Timor emerged as the first independent sovereign nation of the 21st Century. The years since these momentous events have seen an efflorescence of social research across the country drawn by shared interests in the aftermath of the resistance struggle, the processes of social recovery and the historic opportunity to pursue field-based ethnography following the hiatus of research during 24 years of Indonesian rule (1975-99). This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence. The volume is informed by a range of Austronesian cultural themes and highlights the continuing vitality of customary governance and landed attachment in Timor-Leste.

Author : Damien Kingsbury,Michael Leach
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066900906

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East Timor by Damien Kingsbury,Michael Leach Pdf

This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since its independence. The book examines the major themes of development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education, and language policy. Though the country was initially lauded as a case study in successful state-building, the crisis of 2006 demonstrated that East Timor had more in common with other post-colonial, post-conflict societies than some of these earlier optimistic assessments. East Timor continues to attract the interest and attention of governments, scholars, development institutions, and aid workers as a society rebuilding itself after almost a quarter of a century of profound trauma and consecutive eras of colonialism. Covering the era from the independence referendum in August 1999 to the political crisis in 2006, and future prospects and challenges, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding the challenges facing the first new nation of the 21st century.

Author : Gordon Peake
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781922072689

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Beloved Land by Gordon Peake Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2014 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking off Indonesian occupation: running a country of their own. Beloved Land picks up the story where world attention left off. Blending narrative history, travelogue, and personal reminiscences based on four years of living in the country, Gordon Peake shows the daunting hurdles that the people of Timor-Leste must overcome to build a nation from scratch, and how much the international community has to learn if it is to help rather than hinder the process. Family politics, squabbles, power struggles, old romances, and even older grudges are woven into life in this land of intrigue and rumours in the most remarkable ways. Yet above all, Beloved Land is a story about the one million East Timorese who speak nearly 20 different languages, and who are exuberantly building their nation. Written with verve and deep affection, the book introduces a set of colourful Timorese and international characters, and brings them to life unforgettably. PRAISE FOR GORDON PEAKE ‘Besides being a political diagnosis, it’s an absorbing piece of travel writing, vivid and full of well-turned character sketches … The mixture of forthrightness and warmth, and knowledge, makes this book not simply informative but in a quiet way exemplary.’ The Saturday Age ‘Peake’s book is a poignant and invariably deadpan mix of anecdote and analysis, and in my view is the best thing written in English about the country in many a long year.’ The Edge Review

Author : David Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1552389545

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Flowers in the Wall by David Webster Pdf

Annotation Truth and reconciliation is complex, complicated, and ongoing. Although the operational phases of truth commissions have been well examined, the efforts to establish these commissions and the struggle to put their recommendations into effect are often overlooked. 'Flowers in the Wall' explores the experience of truth and reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands. It examines the pre- and post-truth commission phases, providing a diversity of interconnected scholarship.