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Political Symbols and National Identity in Timor-Leste (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Political Symbols and National Identity in Timor-Leste (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and
(re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in
post-conflict Timor-Leste. It develops a Modernist approach to
nations and nationalism by incorporating Bourdieusian theories of
symbolic capital and conflict, to examine how national identity has
been constructed and represented in political symbols. Taking case
studies of flags, monuments, national heroes, and street art, it
critically analyses how a diverse population has interpreted and
(re)constructed its national identity throughout the first decade
of independence, and how the transition from a context of conflict
to peace has influenced such popular imaginings. By examining these
processes of identification with a wide range of symbols, the book
discusses the numerous challenges that this young nation-state
still faces, including victimhood and recognition, democratization
and electoral politics, the political role of cosmology and
spirituality, and post-colonial generational differences and
divisions.
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