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  • Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste

    The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999-2012

    by Rui Feijo ...
    Series series Transforming Asia
    The Indonesian province of Timor-Leste made international news when it decided to break away from Indonesia in 1999. The decision sparked deadly rampages by pro-integrationist militias, violence that only abated when the UN sent a force to maintain peace and help ease the way to actual independence. This book details the political history of Timor-Leste, both preceding and following the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste

    Edited by Lia Kent, Rui Feijo ...
    During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed. Since the nation's independence, families and communities have invested considerable time, effort and resources in fulfilling their obligations to the dead. These obligations are imbued with urgency because the dead are ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Presidents in Semi-Presidential Regimes

    Moderating Power in Portugal and Timor-Leste

    by Rui Graça Feijó ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a comparative perspective on the semi-presidential regimes of Portugal and Timor-Leste, suggesting that they both reserve a “moderating power” for presidents in line with what was theorized by Benjamin Constant. Historical legacies, political culture and short-term political considerations combined create an institutional design that has endured and produced incentives to power ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence

    Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Zelia Pereira, Rui Graça Feijó ...
    Series series Transforming Asia
    From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation. A classic process of European decolonization (1974–1975) was followed by a nationalist struggle against “Third World Colonialism” (1975–1999), and a final phase under the direct aegis of the United Nations (1999–2002). More than a direct ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste

    Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations

    Edited by Susana de Matos Viegas, Rui Feijó ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to have their own state, which they would rule.This book examines a vast array of transformations that have taken place over the past decades. It puts ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South

    Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Immanuel Ness, Luke Sinwell ...
    How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste

    by Michael Leach ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    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 examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial occupations, and into the post-independence era. It charts the evolution ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Africa's Contemporary Challenges

    The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

    Edited by Carlos Lopes ...
    This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals the continent has produced. This rare combination of freedom fighter, operational campaigner and astute ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Explaining Global Poverty

    A Critical Realist Approach

    by Branwen Gruffydd Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world.In order to truly ... Read more

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  • The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

    Edited by Christoph Kohl, Jacqueline Knörr ...
    Series Book 12 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in ... Read more

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  • Global White Supremacy

    Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer

    by Christopher S. Collins, Christopher B. Newman, Alexander Jun ...
    Knowledge is more expansive than the boundaries of the Western university model and its claim to be the dominant—or only—rigorous house of knowledge. In the former colonies of Europe (e.g., South Africa, Brazil, and Oceania), the curriculum, statues, architectures, and other aspects of the university demonstrate the way in which it is a fixture in empire maintenance. The trajectory of global White ... Read more

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  • Philippine Politics

    Possibilities and Problems in a Localist Democracy

    by Lynn White III ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Philippine political history, especially in the twentieth century, challenges the image of democratic evolution as serving the people, and does so in ways that reveal inadequately explored aspects of many democracies. In the first decades of the twenty-first century the Philippines has nonetheless shown gradual socioeconomic "progress".This book provides an interpretive overview of Philippine ... Read more

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