Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future: Memory Frictions and Nation-Making in Timor-Leste

Kent, Lia

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Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future: Memory Frictions and Nation-Making in Timor-Leste

Date

2015

Authors

Kent, Lia

Publisher

Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Abstract

This Discussion Paper investigates state-sponsored memorialisation and commemoration in Timor-Leste and what effect that it has on nation building efforts