Book Talk: Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860 – 2010

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Kisho Tsuchiya shows that the prevailing perceptions of East Timor have been shaped by large-scale wars, postwar consolidation, and the dominance of foreign observers. The transitions that construct what we know about East Timor have followed the rhythm of devastating violence and regime transformations.

Author: Dr. Kisho Tsuchiya, Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Join the discussion moderated by Dr. Ehito Kimura, Associate Professor, with comments from Ariel Mota Alves, Ph.D. Candidate. Both are at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Zoom Registration https://go.hawaii.edu/x5b