Post-conflict social and economic recovery in Timor-Leste : redemptive legacies /
This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery of an impoverished community in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999 by analysing the ways of rebuilding and restoring local community life and alternative ways of g...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.
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| Summary: | This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery of an impoverished community in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999 by analysing the ways of rebuilding and restoring local community life and alternative ways of gaining prosperity through emigration. Based on extensive comparative literature and field-based empirical research into the protracted process of cultural and economic revival following a generation-long period of military repression and a sustained struggle for national independence, the author analyzes the experience of the Fataluku ethno-linguistic communities in Timor-Leste. The book examines post-conflict processes of recovery within the communities and offers nuanced perspectives on local forms of governance, the revitalization of custom and ancestral religion. Offering both an optimistic and alternative narrative in which a traumatised population finds new hope and emergent prosperity, this book highlights a renewed concern with intergenerational well-being and widespread aspirations for prosperity and material benefits following decades of deprivation. It is also an analysis of post-conflict resilience against the odds, illustrating the adaptive possibilities of tradition in the context of globalization and expectations of modernity. A major contribution to understanding the emergence and expansion of informal transnational labor migration out of East Timor, this book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy makers of contemporary Timor-Leste, southeast Asian politics, southeast Asian culture and society, development studies, anthropology and conflict studies. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-161) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367366681 0367366681 |