[TimorLesteStudies] New article; De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: hybridity in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands

[Bu Wilson]

 Richmond, Oliver P. De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: hybridity in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands. The Pacific Review. Volume 24 Issue 1 pp 115-136  Abstract
  Many actors involved in peacebuilding and statebuilding are acutely  aware of the different roles of the 'local' in peacebuilding.  Increasingly, this realisation has opened up tensions between the  liberal peace and the realm of customary forms of politics and social  structure. Peacebuilding may now be seen as a site of international  assistance and local acquiescence, co-option or resistance. To  understand these dynamics, the 'infrapolitics of peacebuilding' need to  be uncovered. This article presents these dynamics in the cases of Timor  Leste and the Solomon islands.   

Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
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