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Timor-Est : le génocide oublié : droit d'un peuple et raisons d'états
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ISBN: 2738414753 9782738414755 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Timor, ritos e mitos ataúros
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Year: 1984 Publisher: Lisboa : Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, Ministério da Educação,

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East Timor : nationalism and colonialism.
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ISBN: 0702214809 0702214817 9780702214806 9780702214813 Year: 1978 Publisher: St. Lucia : University of Queensland press,


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East Timor, land of hope : second symposium on Timor Oporto University, 28 April-1 May 1990), with a historical introduction on East Timor : decolonization, occupation and genocide
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ISBN: 9728025041 Year: 1992 Publisher: Porto

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Historical dictionary of East Timor
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ISBN: 1282977059 9786612977053 0810875187 9780810875180 9780810867543 0810867540 9781282977051 6612977051 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press,

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The history of East Timor is related in this book through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of East Timor history from the earliest times to the present.


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Land and life in Timor-Leste : ethnographical essays
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ISBN: 1921862602 1921862599 9781921862601 9781921862595 Year: 2011 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press,

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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.


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A new era? : Timor-Leste after the UN
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ISBN: 1925022501 192502251X 9781925022513 9781925022506 Year: 2015 Publisher: ANU Press

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Timor-Leste has made impressive progress since its historic achievement of independence in 2002. From the instability that blighted its early years, the fledgling democratic country has achieved strong economic growth and a gradual reinstatement of essential social services. A decade on in 2012, Presidential and Parliamentary elections produced smooth political transitions and the extended UN peacekeeping presence in the country came to an end. But significant challenges remain. This book, a product of the inaugural Timor-Leste Update held at The Australian National University in 2013 to mark the end of Timor-Leste’s first decade as a new nation, brings together a vibrant collection of papers from leading and emerging scholars and policy analysts. Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste. The volume also looks to the future, highlighting a range of transitions, prospects and undoubted challenges facing the nation over the next 5–10 years. Key themes that inform the collection include nation-building in the shadow of history, trends in economic development, stability and social cohesion, and citizenship, democracy and social inclusion. The book is an indispensable guide to contemporary Timor-Leste.


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The promise of prosperity : visions of the future in Timor-Leste
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ISBN: 1760462535 1760462527 Year: 2018 Publisher: ANU Press

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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.

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