{"product_id":"the-unruly-dead-spirits-memory-and-state-formation-in-timor-leste-hardback-9780299349301","title":"The Unruly Dead; Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste (Hardback) 9780299349301","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Unruly Dead\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLia Kent (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299349301\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages, 18 b\u0026amp;w illus., 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“An important intervention into transitional justice scholarship. Kent interrupts established narratives and problematizes assumptions about victims and their temporal location in the past. Convincing, persuasive, and eminently readable.”—Caroline Bennett, University of Sussex “Paying close attention to how the dead make claims on life and the political community in the aftermath of devastating violence, Kent offers a profound and compelling ethnography of how, in responding, Timorese survivors escape official necro-governmental projects and attempt on their own to\u003ci\u003e re\u003c\/i\u003e-member their dead through everyday technologies of truth and self.”—Isaias Rojas-Perez, author of \u003ci\u003eMourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“What might it mean to take the dead seriously?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life who continue to operate within familial structures of obligation and commitment. On individual, local, and national levels, Timor-Leste is invested in various forms of memory work, including memorialization, exhumation, reburial, and commemoration of the occupation’s victims. Such practices enliven the dead, allowing them to forge new relationships with the living and unsettling the state-building logics that seek to contain and control them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With generous, careful ethnography and incisive analysis, Kent challenges comfortable, linear narratives of transitional justice and argues that this memory work is reshaping the East Timorese social and political order—a process in which the dead are active, and sometimes disruptive, participants. Community ties and even the landscape itself are imbued with their presence and demands, and the horrific scale of mass death in recent times—at least a third of the population perished during the Indonesian occupation—means Timor-Leste’s dead have real, significant power in the country’s efforts to remember, recover, and reestablish itself.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Memory Work in Timor-Leste: The Affective Force of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e 1 From Necropower to Necrogovernmentality: State Responses to Massive Bad Death\u003cbr\u003e 2 The Martyred Youth of the Metropole: Re-membering Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003e 3 Civilian Sacrifices in the Town: Re-membering the LiquiÇ\u003cbr\u003eÁ\u003cbr\u003e Church Dead\u003cbr\u003e 4 The “\u003cbr\u003eParticipating Population”\u003cbr\u003e of the Hinterlands: Gathering the Dispersed Dead\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Treacherous Dead of the Badlands: Re-membering Those Killed by the Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Remembering Timor-Leste’\u003cbr\u003es Unruly Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735523389720,"sku":"9780299349301","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-unruly-dead-spirits-memory-and-state-formation-in-timor-leste-hardback-9780299349301","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}