Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste

Redemptive Legacies
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-40084-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

Reihe: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring local community life, and the budding prosperity that has flowed from participation in spontaneous circular labour migration and the remittance benefits that have followed.

Based on extensive comparative literature and field-based empirical research, the book explores the protracted process of cultural and economic revival following a generation-long period of military repression and a sustained struggle for national independence. With a focus on the experiences of Fataluku ethno-linguistic communities in Timor-Leste, the study offers nuanced perspectives on the legacies of conflict and local forms of governance, the revitalisation of customary exchange and ancestral religion. Presenting both an optimistic and alternative narrative in which a traumatised population finds new hope and emergent prosperity, this book highlights a renewed concern with inter-generational 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 globalisation and expectations of modernity.

As a major contribution to understanding the emergence and expansion of informal transnational labour 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McWilliam, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Redemptive Legacies; 2. Paths to Recovery, The return to custom; 3. Landscapes of Violence and Resistance; 4. New Fataluku Labour Migration; 5. Distant Ancestors, Facebook families and the Digital Connect; 6. Landscapes of Remittance and Return; 7. Customary Moderns

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Science at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is Editor in Chief of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste (2019).