The Unruly Dead
Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste
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ISBN-13:
9780299349301
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.08.2024
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Lia Kent
Gewicht:
454 g
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
"What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?" asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life who continue to operate within familial structures of obligation and commitment. On individual, local, and national levels, Timor-Leste is invested in various forms of memory work, including memorialization, exhumation, reburial, and commemoration of the occupation's victims. Such practices enliven the dead, allowing them to forge new relationships with the living and unsettling the state-building logics that seek to contain and control them.
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