<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">BOOK LAUNCH<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">The Timor-Leste Studies Association (TLSA) and the Australia-East Timor Association (AETA) </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">welcome you to the Melbourne launch of:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Michael Leach. 2017. Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste. </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">London & New York: Routledge. 259pp.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">LAUNCH DETAILS<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">5.30 for 6pm, Friday May 19<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Level 9, Victoria University Flinders St Campus<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">300 Flinders St, Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Snacks and drinks provided<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">ALL WELCOME<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">The book will be launched by Professor Clinton Fernandes, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Professor of International and Political Studies, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">About the Book<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial occupations, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">and into the post-independence era. It charts the evolution of the idea of an East Timorese nation: </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">its origins, its sources, and its competitors in traditional understandings of political community, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">and the distinct colonial visions imposed by Portugal or Indonesia. The author analyses the evolution </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">of ideas of collective identity under the long era of Portuguese colonial rule, and through the </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">24-year struggle for independence from Indonesia from 1975 to 1999. Reflecting the contested history </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">of the territory, these include successive attempts to define its members as colonial subjects in a wider </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">‘pluri-racial’ Portuguese empire, as citizens in an ‘integrated’ province of the Republic of Indonesia – and, </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">of course, as a nation that demanded its right to self-determination. Finally, the host of nation-building </p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">tensions and fault lines that emerged after the restoration of independence in 2002 are discussed.</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><o:p>FOR FURTHER DETAILS contact <a href="mailto:easttimorstudies-owner@anu.edu.au">easttimorstudies-owner@anu.edu.au</a> or <a href="mailto:aetamel@aetamel.org">aetamel@aetamel.org</a></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; "><br></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">Australia-East Timor Association<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">PO Box 93<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">FITZROY VIC 3065<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">T: (03) 9416 2960<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier; ">E: <a href="mailto:aetamel@aetamel.org">aetamel@aetamel.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier,sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></body></html>