TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connelly,Susan
TI  - East Timor, René Girard and neocolonial violence: scapegoating as Australian policy 
T2  - Violence, desire, and the sacred
SN  - 9781350161504
AV  - DU113.5.T56 C64 2022eb
U1  - 327. 5987094 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London [England]
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Girard, René,
KW  - Imitation
KW  - Desire
KW  - Violence
KW  - Social & political philosophy,Philosophy of religion,Colonialism & imperialism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Revision of author's PhD thesis; A new way of seeing : mimetic theory -- Australian identity and relationships -- World War II -- The Indonesian invasion -- The occupation of East Timor -- Collapse and resurgence -- Solidarity and conversion; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers; Also published in print
N2  - "In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of René Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century. Charting key developments in East Timor's history and applying three aspects of Girard's framework - the scapegoat, texts of persecution and conversion - Connelly reveals Australia's mimetic dependence on Indonesia and other nations for security. She argues that Australia's complicity in the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor perpetuated the sacrifice of the Timorese people as victims, thus calling into question the traditional Australian values of egalitarianism and fairness. Connelly also examines Australia's conversion process through eventual recognition of the innocent victim and their role in East Timor's suffering, as well as the consequent effects on Australian self-perception. Emphasising Girardian considerations of fear, suffering, forgiveness and conversion, this book offers a fresh perspective on Australian and Timorese relations that in turn sheds light on the origins and operations of human violence"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350161504?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -