This ARC DECRA project involved an investigation of how vernacular memory-work in Timor-Leste and Aceh contributes to imaginings of the nation. I conducted extensive ethnographic research with a diverse range of memory workers, including human rights activists, politicians, members of victims’ groups and resistance veterans’ groups, and families of the dead, visited numerous sites of memory, including monuments, memorials, ossuaries and cemeteries and participated in several events, including commemorations.

Image: Local memory practices taken by Lia Kent