[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: Zelia Pereira and Rui Graça Feijó (eds.), 'Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence', (AUP, 2023)

[Michael Leach]

Zelia Pereira and Rui Graça Feijó (eds.). 2023. Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence: Transnational Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 416pp.

>From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation. A classic process of European decolonization (1974–1975) was followed by a nationalist struggle against “Third World Colonialism” (1975–1999), and a final phase under the direct aegis of the United Nations (1999–2002). More than a direct relation between coloniser and colonised, this turbulent process involved the participation of many different actors scattered around the world. The “Timor Issue” brought to the scene a martyred people’s determination, the diplomacy of several nations (friends or foes), the involvement of the United Nations, and the activism of solidarity networks. This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste’s road to independence.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048555703/html

CONTENTS

Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence: Outline for an Analytical Framework
Zélia Pereira and Rui Graça Feijó

PART ONE BEFORE THE PORTUGUESE DECOLONISATION
1 While the Winds of Change Gently Blow : Timor-Leste before the Onset of the Portuguese Decolonisation, 1945–1974
Rui Graça Feijó

2 Elusive Colonialism in the Age of Bandung : Portugal, Timor- Leste and Indonesia, c. 1947–1974
Pedro Aires Oliveira

3 An “Undigestible Lump” : Timor-Leste and the Politics of Self-determination
Brad Simpson

PART TWO THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION ARRIVES IN TIMOR-LESTE
4 “Nations-of-Intent” : Competing Ideological Views of Nationalism in Timor-Leste, 1974–1999
Michael Leach

5 Looking for an “Honourable Political Solution” : The Comissão Nacional de Descolonização and the Fate of Timor-Leste, 1974–1976
Zélia Pereira

6 Canções Revolucionárias: Rhetoric, Hermeneutic and Ideology Critique
Martinho G. da Silva Gusmão

PART THREE REACTION TO THE INDONESIAN INVASION OF TIMOR-LESTE
7 “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t” : Portugal, the UN and the Timor-Leste Issue
Zélia Pereira

8 “Reduce the Pressure on the Indonesians” : Australian Timor Policy at the UN, 1975–1982
Peter Job

9 “Our Interest Is Minimal, but…” : Britain and the Indonesian Invasion of Timor-Leste, 1975–1976
Norrie MacQueen

PART FOUR RESISTING THE INDONESIAN ANNEXATION OF TIMOR-LESTE
10 Return to Fronteira Norte: Rebuilding Resistance in Timor- Leste’s Western Districts, 1990–1995
Edith Bowles

11 “I Follow the Screaming” : The Timorese Catholic Church and the Struggle for Independence
Maria José Garrido

12 Walking a Tightrope between the Army and the Church : Jesuit Relief during the Indonesian Occupation of Timor-Leste, 1975–1999
Pocut Hanifah

13 The Indonesian Genocide in Timor-Leste: Law, Politics, History
Clinton Fernandes


Professor Michael Leach
Politics and International Relations
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
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AUSTRALIA 3122
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