[TimorLesteStudies] Online Booktalk on 18 November, Kisho Tsuchiya's Emplacing East Timor

[Kisho Tsuchiya]

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm in Melbourne time and 10:30 - 11:30 in Timor-Leste
time.
Registration is required from this link
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010-tickets-1061853605719

All welcome!

Book Talk: *Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production,
1860-2010* (University of Hawaii Press, 2024)
<https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/>

*Emplacing East Timor* explores the relationship between the cycle of
regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative
framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Kisho Tsuchiya
shows that the prevailing perceptions of East Timor have been shaped by
large-scale wars, postwar consolidation, and the dominance of foreign
observers. The transitions that construct what we know about East Timor
have followed the rhythm of devastating violence and regime
transformations. Playing a role as well are personal, institutional, and
geopolitical interests and the creativity of Timorese and foreign
observers. Acknowledging this cycle, Tsuchiya interweaves narrative of
crucial events and political movements with an analysis of Timor’s
connections to global circulations and historical transitions. He traces
key persons and communities that shaped the contour of East Timor—from
Portuguese colonial officers to anthropologists, Japanese occupiers to
Australian activists, and Timorese poets to revolutionaries. Their
experiences and imaginations of (East) Timor have been expressed through
scholarly works, secret documents, policy statements, ceremonies,
revolutionary songs, and museums. Using multi-archival historical research,
the author introduces sources in several languages and provides missing
links, including secret documents in Portuguese archives and the National
Archives of Timor-Leste, Japanese wartime sources, and Timorese sources in
the Archives of Timorese Resistance. *Emplacing East Timor* skillfully
synthesizes nationalism studies and borderland studies, creating a
comprehensive approach to modern East Timorese national imaginings, the
historical role of territorial borders, and its postcolonial problems.

Partners

Kyoto University

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) - School of Japan Studies


Speakers, presenters

Facilitator: Professor Akihiro Ogawa, Asia Institute

Kisho Tsuchiya <https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/tsuchiya/>,
*Assistant
Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University*

Kisho Tsuchiya is an assistant professor at the Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Kyoto University. He earned PhD (History) and MA (Southeast Asian
Studies) from the National University of Singapore. He authored many
journal articles on Southeast Asian history in addition to his recent
book, Emplacing
East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010 (Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press, 2024)
<https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/>.
His ongoing research, "Analysis of the Formation of the Grassroots
Conservatives in the 20th c. - 21st c. through Life-Histories of Mindanaoan
People" was awarded a multi-year research funding from the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science.
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