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Conflict, identity, and state formation in East Timor 2000-2017 by James Scambary
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Publication Date: 2019

This book analyses conflict patterns in independent East Timor. It argues that understanding the role of local level actors and the dynamics of sub-national conflict is integral to understanding national level conflict and the contours of contemporary political power.
Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in by Lisa Palmer
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Publication Date: 2021

Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside in. Incorporating the author’s experiences from more than two decades of involvement with Timor-Leste and, more particularly, the months she spent travelling with her family from west to east in 2018, Palmer traces paths redolent in longing and learning, belonging and bewilderment, courage and conviction to tell of an island divided by colonialism and conflict.
Crossing histories and ethnographies : following colonial historicities in Timor-Leste by edited by Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
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Publication Date: 2019

This study engages critically with the colonial pasts of indigenous societies and examines how fieldwork and archival studies together lead to fruitful insights into the making of different colonial historicities.
Divided loyalties : displacement, belonging and citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor by Andrey Damaledo
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Publication Date: 2018

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the ideas of belonging and citizenship among former pro-autonomy East Timorese who have elected to settle indefinitely in West Timor.
Land and life in Timor-Leste : ethnographic essays by edited by Andrew McWilliam and Elizabeth G. Traube
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Publication Date: 2011

Exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance.
The land of gold : post-conflict recovery and cultural revival in independent Timor-Leste by Judith M. Bovensiepen
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Publication Date: 2015

History of independent in the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste.
A new era? : Timor-Leste after the UN by edited by Sue Ingram, Lia Kent and Andrew McWilliam.
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Publication Date: 2015

This book, a product of the inaugural Timor-Leste Update held at The Australian National University in 2013 to mark the end of Timor-Leste's first decade as a new nation, brings together a vibrant collection of papers from leading and emerging scholars and policy analysts. Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste.
The promise of prosperity : visions of the future in Timor-Leste by Judith M. Bovensiepen
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Publication Date: 2018

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.