Lia Kent is a peace and conflict studies scholar and a senior fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. She is the author of The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Memory Work in Timor-Leste: The Affective Force of the Dead1 From Necropower to Necrogovernmentality: State Responses to Massive Bad Death2 The Martyred Youth of the Metropole: Re-membering Santa Cruz3 Civilian Sacrifices in the Town: Re-membering the LiquiÇÁ Church Dead4 The “Participating Population” of the Hinterlands: Gathering the Dispersed Dead5 The Treacherous Dead of the Badlands: Re-membering Those Killed by the ResistanceConclusion: Remembering Timor-Leste’s Unruly DeadGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

“An important intervention into transitional justice scholarship. Kent interrupts established narratives and problematizes assumptions about victims and their temporal location in the past. Convincing, persuasive, and eminently readable.”—Caroline Bennett, University of Sussex “Paying close attention to how the dead make claims on life and the political community in the aftermath of devastating violence, Kent offers a profound and compelling ethnography of how, in responding, Timorese survivors escape official necro-governmental projects and attempt on their own to re-member their dead through everyday technologies of truth and self.”—Isaias Rojas-Perez, author of Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes