Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or
shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government …

Timor-Leste offers a rich case study of the array of discursive influences on medium-
ofinstruction (MOI) policy in multilingual, post-colonial developing contexts. MOI policy in this …

Timor-Leste's long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a
short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book …

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess
how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level. Transitional justice …

Timor-Leste celebrated its formal political independence on 20th May 2002. The National
Constitution of the new nation declared the endogenous lingua franca (Tetum) and the …

This book draws on the narratives of white women as English language teachers in the
neocolonial world of international development. It explores the paradoxes of language as …

In Timor-Leste, these difficult legacies are complicated by the distinct cultural and linguistic
affiliations promoted by successive colonial regimes, political schisms within the former …

In 2006 a security crisis in Timor-Leste caused the collapse of the police force, dismissal of
almost half of the army and the internal displacement of 150,000 people. The roots of the …

This paper examines recent debates over national history in post-colonial East Timor. It is
argued that beneath a broadly unifying theme of 'national'resistance to colonial occupations …

This article examines post-independence debates over national identity in East Timor,
presenting the findings of a longitudinal survey (carried out in Dili in 2002 and 2007) of East …