Post-conflict social and economic recovery in Timor-Leste : redemptive legacies / Andrew McWilliam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliam, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postwar reconstruction--Timor-Leste--Lautém (District).

Postwar reconstruction.

Timorese.

Foreign countries.

Timor-Leste--Lautém.

Economic development--Timor-Leste--Lautém (District).

Economic development.

Timorese--Employment--Foreign countries.

Ethnology--Timor-Leste--Lautém (District).

Ethnology.

Lautém (Timor-Leste : District)--Social conditions.

Lautém (Timor-Leste : District).

Lautém (Timor-Leste : District)--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 165 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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 analyses 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 revitalisation 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 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Redemptive Legacies

Paths to Recovery, The Return to Custom

Landscapes of Violence and Resistance

New Fataluku Labour Migration

Distant Ancestors, Facebook Families and the Digital Connect

Landscapes of Remittance and Return

Customary Moderns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367366681

0367366681

OCLC:

1122170549

Publisher Number:

99990015636