Development and the environmental politics unmasked : authority, participation and equity in East Timor / Christopher Shepherd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Christopher (Christopher John), author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series ; 60.

Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Timor-Leste--History.

Economic development.

Economic development--Political aspects--Timor-Leste--History.

Rural development--Timor-Leste--History.

Rural development.

Community development--Timor-Leste--History.

Community development.

Timor-Leste--Politics and government.

Timor-Leste.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Focusing on rural development and environmental conservation, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It focuses on two comparative areas of development and conservation: the politics of development across the three political regimes, and development in independent East Timor across four case studies of interventions delivered by various national or international development agencies. Employing a unique classificatory framework for kinds of approaches to development--coercive orders, mandated orders, negotiated orders--the book looks at the plantation-centred development of Portuguese Timor as a European colony and the integration-oriented development of 'Timor Timur' as Indonesia's 27th province. It examines the neoliberal 'democratic' development of East Timor (or Timor-Leste) in the current context of state and nation-building, before drawing on case studies to examine how development proceeds as a negotiation between the authoritative yearnings of state, non-state and international development actors and the needs of local people to adapt intervention to suit their lived realities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Histories; 1 Pacification and coffee (1769-1910); 2 Military colonization and agriculture (1910-45); 3 Third World development and the cold war (1945-75); 4 Ethnocide and development; 5 Postcolonial development and governmentality (1999 and after); PART II Ethnographic encounters; 6 Volunteering development: technology-driven social idealism; 7 Market utopias and fragmented communities; 8 Social engineering: a 'farmer first' green revolution

9 Conservation, state managerialism and 'alternative development'Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 12, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-02312-7

1-138-57553-4

0-203-79728-0

1-136-02304-6

9780203797280

OCLC:

854977150