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Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste

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Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste book

Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations

Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste

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Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste book

Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations
Edited BySusana de Matos Viegas, Rui Graça Feijó
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 14 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315535012
Pages 288 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315535012
SubjectsArea Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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de Matos Viegas, S. (Ed.), Feijó, R. G. (Ed.). (2017). Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315535012

1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to have their own state, which they would rule.

This book examines a vast array of transformations that have taken place over the past decades. It puts forward the idea of "cohabitations", which aims at inscribing the mutual influences arising from the existence of distinct social processes not only side by side but in their mutual influences and entanglements, sometimes resulting from effective clashes, some others from peaceful manipulation of social and cultural differences. From this analytical viewpoint of evolving power dynamics of cohabitations, experts in the field investigate issues that have been contentious in the recent past and analyse the challenges that present-day Timor-Leste is facing. Structured in three parts, the contributions address issues of governance, land, as well as the transformation in the traditional culture including conceptions about identity and exchange, and transformations in the ritual and religious experiences of becoming a nation rooted in self-determination.

For the first time bringing together original contributions by the most notable experts on Timor-Leste in a cohesive and comprehensive way, the book will be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Law Studies, History and Political Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |41 pages

Introduction

Exploring cohabitations in Timor-Leste
WithSusana de Matos Viegas, Rui Graça Feijó

part I|67 pages

Contexts for a “revival of custom”

chapter 1|16 pages

Returning to origin places in an expanding world

Customary ritual in independent Timor-Leste
WithElizabeth G. Traube

chapter 2|18 pages

Hunting and harvesting the commons

On the cultural politics of custom
WithAndrew McWilliam

chapter 3|15 pages

The re-assertion of sacralised authority in post-occupation Uato-Lari

WithSusana Barnes

chapter 4|16 pages

Territorialities of the fallen heroes

WithSusana de Matos Viegas, Rui Graça Feijó

part II|62 pages

Land and territory

chapter 5|10 pages

The challenges of establishing a land tenure regime in a newly independent state

WithDionísio Babo Soares

chapter 6|19 pages

Navigating without a compass

State transition in Timor-Leste’s formal land tenure system
WithBernardo Almeida

chapter 7|14 pages

Reconceptualizing land and territory in Oecusse Ambeno enclave’s special economic zone

WithLaura S. Meitzner Yoder

chapter 8|17 pages

Exchange, water and motif in an etic genre of narrative

WithDavid Hicks

part III|86 pages

Governance and democracy

chapter 9|18 pages

An ecology of governance

Rethinking the state and political community
WithM. Anne Brown, Damian Grenfell

chapter 10|17 pages

Managing resources, persons and rituals

Economic pedagogy as government tactics
WithKelly Silva

chapter 11|19 pages

Local administration

A view from Vemasse
WithMichael Leach

chapter 12|17 pages

“At home we wear cawat, outside we wear a tie”

Cohabitation and political legitimacy in grass-roots democracy 1
WithRui Graça Feijó

chapter 13|13 pages

Conflict resolution and the making of personhood in Lisadila, Maubara

WithDaniel S. Simião
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