00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009858 20200508205002 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 978-90-04-39679-1 010-0520009858 eng 959.8 959.8/SCA/C James Scambary Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017 Leiden Brill 2019 xii, 252 pages illustration, maps <a href="https://brill.com/view/title/54462">e-book</a> 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 Timors 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. South East Asia Asian Studies Sociology & Antropolgy