Lia Michelle Kent
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Lia Michelle Kent
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Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Lia Michelle Kent.
Primary Sources
Kent, L. (2024). The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste. University of Wisconsin Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15684196
Kent, L. (2024). The dead as memory workers. Memory Studies, 17(3), 500-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241240715
Kent, L., Hemming, S., Rigney, D., & Fforde, C. (2024). The ‘dead’ as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement. Journal of Sociology, 60(4), 819-836. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241245536
Kent, L. (2024). Unsettling forensics: novel forms of necro-governmentality and alternative knowledge practices in Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste. Death Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2424025
Kent, L. (2021). Sri Lankan civil society in the new Rajapaksa era: navigating the Victors peace. Policy Briefing – SEARBO2 - September 2021, Australia National University. New Mandala. Accessed January 11, 2023. https://www.newmandala.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lia-Kent_SEARBO_Policy-brief-paper.pdf
Kent, L., & Feijó, R. (Eds.). (2020). The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724319/the-dead-as-ancestors-martyrs-and-heroes-in-timor-leste
Kent, L. (2020). No space for memory? Monuments, memorials and the residues of the war in Sri Lankas North. Arena Quarterly, 29 May, 2020.
https://arena.org.au/no-space-for-memory/
Kent, L., Wallis, J., & Cronin, C. (2019). Civil society and transitional justice in Asia and the Pacific. ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/CSTJAP.2019
Kent, L. (2016). Sounds of Silence: Everyday Strategies of Social Repair in Timor-Leste. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 42(1), 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2016.1175403
Kent, L. (2016). Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology. The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 42(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2016.1196533
Kent, L. (2012). The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities, in East Timor, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203117439
Kent, L. (2007). ‘The Pursuit of Justice and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste: Some Insights from the Recent Violence’, In Palmer. L., Niner, S. & Kent, L (Eds). Exploring the Tensions of Nation Building in Timor-Leste, School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, The University of Melbourne.
Secondary Sources
Robins, S., & Kent, L. (2024). Towards a spectral forensics: spirits as epistemic resources in responses to the dead and missing. The International Journal of Human Rights, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2396343
Black, S., Kennedy, R., & Kent, L. (2024). Memory, activism and the arts in Asia and the Pacific. Memory Studies, 17(3), 471-479. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241243037Wallis, J., Kent, L., Forsyth, M., Dinnen, S & Bose. S. (2018). Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development : Critical Conversations. ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/HGPD.03.2018
Ingram, S., Kent. L., & McWilliam, A. (2015). A New Era?: Timor-Leste After the UN. Acton, Canberra: ANU Press. ISBN 9789463724319. http://doi.org/10.22459/NE.09.2015
Extra Resources
Research Seminar Series Semester 1 2018 Lia Kent, May 23, School of Political Science and International Studies. Accessed January 11, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmpDZhyQJeE
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“Lia Michelle Kent,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/164.