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Following the historic 1999 popular referendum, East Timor emerged as the first independent sovereign nation of the 21st Century. The years since these momentous events have seen an efflorescence of social research across the country drawn by shared interests in the aftermath of the resistance struggle, the processes of social recovery and the historic opportunity to pursue field-based ethnography following the hiatus of research during 24 years of Indonesian rule (1975-99). This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence. The volume is informed by a range of Austronesian cultural themes and highlights the continuing vitality of customary governance and landed attachment in Timor-Leste.

Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Ethnology --- Timor-Leste --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Rural conditions --- History --- East Timor --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- RDTL --- 東ティモール --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östtimor --- Östra Timor --- Тимор-Лесте --- Timor Timur (Indonesia) --- Constitutional Government of East Timor --- Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste --- Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste

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For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.

Timor-Leste --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- East Timor --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- RDTL --- 東ティモール --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östtimor --- Östra Timor --- Тимор-Лесте --- Timor Timur (Indonesia) --- Developing countries --- Indigenous peoples --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Social Policy --- Economic Development --- Oil --- Constitutional Government of East Timor --- Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste --- Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste

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The Indonesian province of Timor-Leste made international news when it decided to break away from Indonesia in 1999. The decision sparked deadly rampages by pro-integrationist militias, violence that only abated when the UN sent a force to maintain peace and help ease the way to actual independence. This book details the political history of Timor-Leste, both preceding and following the declaration of independence, and it uses the events, consequences, and lessons of that period to help us understand what to expect for similar experiments in democracy building elsewhere in the world.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Timor-Leste --- Politics and government. --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- East Timor --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östra Timor --- Östtimor --- RDTL --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- Тимор-Лесте --- 東ティモール --- Timor Timur (Indonesia) --- Politics and government --- 2000-2099 --- Constitutional Government of East Timor --- Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste --- Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. --- Constitutionalism. --- Decentralization. --- Democracy. --- Elections: Semi-presidentialism.

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Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside in.

Memoirs --- True stories: discovery / historical / scientific --- Anthropology --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Physical anthropology --- Timor Leste --- Timor-Leste --- development --- environment --- Culture --- travel --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- East Timor --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östra Timor --- Östtimor --- RDTL --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- Тимор-Лесте --- 東ティモール --- Constitutional Government of East Timor --- Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste --- Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste --- Timor Timur (Indonesia)

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Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country’s independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the historical process that created the present-day situation. This research monograph is the first book to combine a historical analysis of the creation and development of the economy of East Timor from the earliest times to the present, and an analysis of the main contemporary problems facing the East Timorese economy. Volume II offers a detailed analysis of the economy of East Timor, of politics, fiscal policy and social progress. It pays particular attention to structural problems: employment generation and the lack of a modern sector, the modernization of agriculture and the management of the oil deposits in the Timor Sea. The first volume, available separately, considers East Timor from a chronological perspective, as a Portuguese colony, and a country occupied by Indonesia up to national independence in 2002. This book will appeal to economists, political scientists and social scientists in general as well as practitioners, since it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy to develop. The book can also be read by students both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and could be used for case studies in development. .

Economic history. --- Timor-Leste --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- East Timor --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östra Timor --- Östtimor --- RDTL --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- Тимор-Лесте --- 東ティモール --- Timor Timur (Indonesia) --- Asia—History. --- Development economics. --- Political science. --- Economic development. --- Natural resources. --- Economic History. --- Asian History. --- Development Economics. --- Political Science. --- Development Studies. --- Natural Resource and Energy Economics. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Economic development --- Economic aspects --- Asia --- Power resources. --- History. --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries