RT Article
T1 After the truth commission: gender and citizenship in Timor-Leste
JF Human rights review
VO 17
IS 1
SP 51
OP 70
A1 Kent, Lia 1988-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/860853330
AB This article explores the relationship between truth commissions and gendered citizenship through a case study of Timor-Leste. It examines how, 10 years after the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) has completed its work, women’s citizenship remains constrained by, and negotiated within, deeply gendered narratives of nation-building that are informed by historical experiences of the resistance struggle. The power of these narratives—which foreground heroism rather than victimisation—underscores the need to situate truth commissions as part of an ongoing politics of memory. Despite the power of political elites to shape this politics, the continued marginalisation of sections of society within official narratives is also providing an impetus for alternative truth-telling efforts that seek to broaden public perspectives on the past. By promoting new narratives of women’s experiences of the conflict, these projects might be understood as attempts to negotiate and transform gendered conceptions of citizenship in the present and for the future.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 68-70
K1 Truth commissions
K1 Memory
K1 Politics
K1 Gender
K1 Citizenship
K1 Timor-Leste
DO 10.1007/s12142-015-0390-2