Masculinities, Violence and Power in Timor Leste

Tracking violence in Timor - Leste

Associations between bride price stress and intimate partner violence amongst pregnant women in Timor-Leste

BACKGROUND Reducing violence against women is a global public health priority, particularly in low-income and conflict-affected societies. However, more needs to be known about the causes of intimate partner violence (IPV) in these settings, including the stress of bride price obligations. METHODS The representative study of women attending ante-natal clinics in Dili, Timor-Leste was conducte...

Influences and Echoes of Indonesia in Timor-Leste

Since 1999, when a United Nations (UN) transitional administration was established in the wake of the East Timorese vote for independence from Indonesia, the case of Timor-Leste has been a relative mainstay in research and policy debates on post-conflict reconstruction (Call and Wyeth 2008; Hood 2007; Svoboda and Davey 2013). TimorLeste is often characterised by scholars as a ‘postconflict’ cou...

Masculinities, Violence and Communitarian Control

iolence is gendered: it is in considerable measure a problem and consequence of masculinity. Contemporary state interventions to control violence are no less gendered: structures of response, from arrest through imprisonment, glorify tough cops, celebrate adversarial relations, and construct a virtuous "protective" state by incarcerating or, in some countries, killing "the bad guys". What alter...

Entangled worlds: villages and political community in Timor-Leste

This essay is about the interaction of different life-worlds, of different ways of understanding and constituting political community, and the challenges of working—and, for East Timorese, living—across these differences.1 As with many formerly colonised states, Timor-Leste is characterised by the coexistence of fundamentally different socio-political cultures and logics of governance.2 Timor-L...