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Biography
Lia Kent is a Senior Fellow/Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. An interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies scholar, Lia's research is interested in the myriad ways in which individuals and communities make sense of legacies of state violence and protracted conflict. She has examined these themes through long-term ethnographic research in Timor-Leste (since 2004) and more recent research in Aceh (Indonesia) and Sri Lanka. Lia is especially interested in how vernacular practices of social repair intersect with states' regulatory and governance practices and global peacebuilding discourses. She has pursued these questions through projects and publications on peacebuilding, state-building, transitional justice, reconciliation, gender justice and memory politics.
Expertise Areas
- Law and Society
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Social Change
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Memory Studies
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Network (past 5 years)
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Local responses to missing persons and post-conflict peacebuilding
Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National University (ANU)
6/09/21 → 5/09/25
Project: Research
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Heritage and Reconciliation
Fforde, C., Hemming, S., Kawharu, M., Kent, L., Lehman, G., Rigney, D., Smith, L., Stone, P. & Tapsell, P.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/07/20 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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Local Memories and Nation-building in Timor-Leste and Bougainville
Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/06/15 → 21/10/19
Project: Research
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The impact of political reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Jeffery, R., Wallis, J. & Kent, L.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/02/14 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Sri Lankan civil society in the new Rajapaksa era: navigating the victor’s peace.
Kent, L., 2021Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Gathering the dead, imagining the state? Commissions for the recovery of human remains
Kent, L., 2020, The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste. Lia Kent, Rui Graca Feijo (ed.). 1 ed. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 283-304Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Martyrs, Ancestors and Heroes: The Multiple lives of Dead Bodies in Timor-Leste
Kent, L. & Graca Feijo, R., 2020, The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs and Heroes in Timor-Leste, and Heroes in Timor-Leste. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 15-44Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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In Women's Words: Violence and Everyday Life during the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor 1975-1999
Kent, L., 2019, In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 20, 1, p. 102-105Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Rethinking 'civil society' and 'victim-centred' transitional justice in Timor-Leste
Kent, L., 2019, Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific. Lia Kent, Joanne Wallis & Claire Cronin (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press, p. 23-38Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter