Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017

By James Scambary

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004394184
• ISBN13: 9789004394186
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"