Competitive Nation-Building in Timor-Leste
Nation-building is a competitive practice – no matter how united a people were in their past struggle for independence, and no matter how convincingly pledges are made thereafter to preserve ‘national unity.’ In 2002, Timor-Leste became a sovereign state. Starting from scratch after decades of resistance war, protagonists of varying age, education, and political backgrounds had rather different ideas of building their new community – as the ‘Tetralemma’ of four formal languages illustrates in this book.This study explores the enormous challenges and exciting dynamics faced by emerging postcolonial and post-conflict nations. It explains why popular expectations of inclusiveness and stake, so vital to the success of liberation movements, turn into potential sources for distress after independence. Through a combined analytical approach of nationalism, sovereignty, collective memory, and strategic groups theory, nation-building is defined as the interest and ideology-driven construction of identity which, after all, constitutes a primarily political process.
| Autor: | Borgerhoff, Andre |
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| ISBN: | 9783940132475 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 384 |
| Produktart: | Buch |
| Verlag: | regiospectra Verlag Berlin |
| Veröffentlicht: | 31.05.2012 |
| Untertitel: | With Particular Reference to the Discourse on the Postcolony’s ‘Language Tetralemma’ During the Years 2002-07 |
| Schlagworte: | Indonesia Nationalismus Nationenbildung Osttimor Souveränität Sprachpolitik Südostasien Tetum Unabhängigkeit national identity |