Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017 / / James Scambary.

• Author: Scambary, James.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 311.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Acronyms and Foreign Terms -- The Enigma of the 2006 Crisis -- An Archaeology of Conflict -- The 2006 Crisis in Context -- Mystics, Messiahs and Machismo: mags and Veterans’ Groups -- Gangs or Glee Clubs? Urban Dili-Based Groups -- Conflict and Resilience in a Squatter Settlement -- Implications for Peacebuilding -- The Foundations of a Clientelist State -- Conflict and State Formation: an Integrated Understanding -- Back Matter -- References.