Sakti, Victoria Kamala, 2012, "Remaking a World Beyond State Demarcation: Emotion, Violence and Memory in Post-conflict Oecussi, East Timor", Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation: Bridging Past Present and Future Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 10-13 January 2012.
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</div><br /><br />http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=conflict_reconcilation_symposium<br /><br />Abstract<br />Abstract Since achieving independence from the 24 years of Indonesian occupation in<br />2002, reconciliation efforts enabled processes of rebuilding relationships in conflict-torn<br />East Timor1. Nevertheless, a large number of East Timorese continues to live in the<br />bordering West Timor, Indonesia. Many of them were involved as pro-Indonesia militias<br />in the 1999 atrocities and avoid returning to their home country in the fear of retribution.<br />Based on a multi-sited ethnography this paper demonstrates how the bonds between the<br />two communities, now separated by a formal state demarcation, continue to be negotiated<br />in their everyday lives. Scrutinizing the role of emotion in this process and how it is<br />influenced by existing politics of memory sheds light to what is actually at stake for<br />people affected by past violent conflict. Ultimately, the paper discusses the questions of<br />how people process, communicate and remember past experiences of violence and how<br />emotions are articulated and experienced in these processes.<br /><br /><br />--<br signature="separator" />Dr Bu V.E. Wilson<br />T: Australia +61 0 407 087 086<br />T: Timor-Leste + 670 744 0011<br />E: buvewilson@gmail.com