[TimorLesteStudies] Reminder - book launch Melb - Fri 19th May

[Australia-East Timor Association]

BOOK LAUNCH
 
The Timor-Leste Studies Association (TLSA) and the Australia-East Timor
Association (AETA) 
welcome you to the Melbourne launch of:
 
Michael Leach. 2017. Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste.
London & New York: Routledge. 259pp.
 
LAUNCH DETAILS
5.30 for 6pm, Friday May 19
Level 9, Victoria University Flinders St Campus
300 Flinders St, Melbourne.
Snacks and drinks provided
ALL WELCOME
 
The book will be launched by Professor Clinton Fernandes,
Professor of International and Political Studies,
UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
 
About the Book
Timor-Leste¹s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by
Portugal, 
a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia.
This book 
examines the history of nation-building and national identity in
Timor-Leste, 
and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial
occupations, 
and into the post-independence era. It charts the evolution of the idea of
an East Timorese nation:
its origins, its sources, and its competitors in traditional understandings
of political community,
and the distinct colonial visions imposed by Portugal or Indonesia. The
author analyses the evolution
of ideas of collective identity under the long era of Portuguese colonial
rule, and through the
24-year struggle for independence from Indonesia from 1975 to 1999.
Reflecting the contested history
of the territory, these include successive attempts to define its members as
colonial subjects in a wider
Œpluri-racial¹ Portuguese empire, as citizens in an Œintegrated¹ province of
the Republic of Indonesia ­ and,
of course, as a nation that demanded its right to self-determination.
Finally, the host of nation-building
tensions and fault lines that emerged after the restoration of independence
in 2002 are discussed.
 
FOR FURTHER DETAILS contact  easttimorstudies-owner at anu.edu.au or
aetamel at aetamel.org


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