Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste

Interview with Dr Annie Wu, 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant Recipient

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? My current research is a monograph about the circular migration between Australia and Timor-Leste. It’s an ethnographic and longitudinal piece about seasonal agricultural workers’ lives in Australia. In addition, it’s about the socio-economic and community […]

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“The Santa Cruz Massacre, Thirty Years On” Symposium

Today in my city… Mothers crying …their tears water the flowers that scatter on the gravestones of Santa Cruz Cemetery Their bodies have disappeared from our side But their names are imprinted in the heart of the Timorese People Egas Alves, “Today in my city,” 31 May 1995 On 12 November 1991, Indonesian soldiers shot

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Haunted houses and ghostly encounters: ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860–1975

Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters has recently been published by National University of Singapore Press as part of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) – Southeast Asia Publications Series. Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters presents the history of Western ethnography of indigenous religion––or animism––in East Timor during the final century of Portuguese rule, until

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Gendered Narratives of Development and Modernity from Indonesian-Occupied East Timor

Dr Hannah Loney was awarded the 2017 ASAA Postdoctoral Fellowship, here she tells us more about her work on East Timor. Can you tell us a bit about your research? What’s the problem it explores? As part of my ASAA Postdoctoral Fellowship, I am developing a short piece on violence, biopolitics, and regimes of the

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Political transformation in Timor-Leste hits the pause button

Politics in East Timor have reached something of an impasse and could develop in a number of directions, either a return to old patterns or transformational, writes James Scambary The election in East Timor on July 22 this year, the third parliamentary election since it voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999, promised a departure

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Timor–Leste consolidates its young democracy

The people of one of the world’s youngest democracies are embracing an open, public and popular electoral process, writes Damien Kingsbury In a colourful and noisy event, unblemished so far by the violence that marred the first few years of independence, Timor–Leste prepares for its fourth parliamentary elections this Saturday. By conventional criteria, it has

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