New Books Network: The Unruly Dead

In this episode of the New Books in Southeast Asian Studies Podcast, Lia Kent discusses her new book titled The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste (University Wisconsin Press, 2024). In this new contribution to critical human rights scholarship, Kent challenges comfortable, linear narratives of transitional justice and argues that memory work—including the memorialization, exhumation, reburial, and commemoration of the Indonesian occupation’s victims—is reshaping the social and political order of East Timor.

This episode was produced by NYSEAN Partner, the New Books Network.