<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">Dear colleagues,<br><div><br></div><div>I happily announce the publication of my new book:</div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><small style="font-family:verdana;text-align:left"><b>Andre Borgerhoff</b></small><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">
<big style="font-family:verdana;text-align:left"><b>Competitive Nation-Building in Timor-Leste</b></big><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left"><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana">With Particular Reference to the Discourse on the Postcolony’s ‘Language Tetralemma’ During the Years 2002-07</span><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">
<br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left"><i style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">Nation-building</i><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana"> is a competitive practice – no matter how united a people were in their past struggle for independence, and no matter how convincingly pledges are made thereafter to preserve ‘national unity.’ In 2002, Timor-Leste became a sovereign state. Starting from scratch after decades of resistance war, protagonists of varying age, education, and political backgrounds had rather different ideas of building </span><i style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">their </i><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana">new community – as the ‘Tetralemma’ of four formal languages illustrates in this book. </span><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">
<br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left"><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana">This study explores the enormous challenges and exciting dynamics faced by emerging postcolonial and post-conflict nations. It explains why popular expectations of inclusiveness and stake, so vital to the success of liberation movements, turn into potential sources for distress after independence. Through a combined analytical approach of nationalism, sovereignty, collective memory, and strategic groups theory, nation-building is defined as the interest and ideology-driven construction of identity which, after all, constitutes a primarily </span><i style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">political</i><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana"> process. </span>
</div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">Format</b><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana"> 225 x 155 mm, 394 pages</span><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">
<b style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">ISBN</b><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana"> 978-3-940132-47-5 </span><br style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">
<b style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:left">Price:</b><span style="text-align:left;font-size:11px;font-family:verdana"> 29,90 Euro (D) </span>
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