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Poor People’s Politics in East Timor
Hughes, Caroline
Hughes, Caroline
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2015
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Third World Quarterly, 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1029906
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Poor people attempting to claim a share of resources in post-conflict societies seek allies internationally and nationally in attempts to empower their campaigns. In so doing, they mobilize the languages of liberalism, nationalism and local cultural tradition selectively and opportunistically to both justify stances that transgress the strictures of local culture and to cement alliances with more powerful actors. In the case of poor widows in East Timor, the languages of nationalism, ritual, and justice were intermingled in a campaign aimed at both international actors and the national state in a bid to claim a position of status in the post-conflict order.
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Hughes C (2015) Poor People’s Politics in East Timor. Third World Quarterly. 36(5): 908-928.
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