Abstract
While there have been many studies on the machinations of high politics and different aspects of rural communities in Timor-Leste, few studies have looked into the subnational conflicts across urban and rural areas that characterize daily life in the country. James Scambary’s book, Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, admirably tackles this middle ground, and adds a welcome critical view to the existing literature on the conflicts in Timor-Leste. His study, based on extensive fieldwork, demonstrates how violent gang and social conflicts do not follow “master narratives” of divisions between the police and the military, strongmen tussles or youth disaffection, but are rather multi-scalar and diachronic
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 305-307 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Contemporary Southeast Asia: a journal of international and strategic affairs |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Aug 2020 |
Keywords
- Timor-Leste
- Masculinities
- violence
- gangs
- conflict
