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<p class="MsoNormal">Thu, P.M. 2012. ‘Access to Land and Livelihoods in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste’,
<i>Australian Geographer</i>, 43(2), pp.197-214.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">East Timor gained formal independence in 2002. Its extended history of internal displacement through colonial territorialisation strategies and conflict has produced an array of contesting
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> claims, informal <span class="singlehighlightclass">
land</span> use and occupation, and socio-political conflict. Correspondingly, the
<span class="singlehighlightclass">Timor-Leste</span> (or East Timor) government has looked to formal
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> registration and titling to resolve historical and contemporary tensions over
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span>. The proposed national <span class="singlehighlightclass">
land</span> laws concentrate on <span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> ownership, which overlooks the social relations at work to shape local
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> <span class="singlehighlightclass">
access</span> and <span class="singlehighlightclass">livelihoods</span>. A case study of a rural village, Mulia, forcibly resettled during the Indonesian occupation, demonstrates how settlers negotiate
<span class="singlehighlightclass">access</span> to customary <span class="singlehighlightclass">
land</span> for <span class="singlehighlightclass">livelihoods</span> despite ongoing
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> conflicts with the customary landowners. Settlers have continually adapted to broader economic and political constraints to create diverse and multi-local
<span class="singlehighlightclass">livelihoods</span>, and established a moral economy between themselves, landowners and the local spirit realm. This paper argues that formal
<span class="singlehighlightclass">land</span> titles are unlikely to resolve the ambiguities and complexities of diverse forms of
<span class="singlehighlightclass">access</span> to and ownership of <span class="singlehighlightclass">
land</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Available at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2012.682296#preview">
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2012.682296#preview</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warm Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pyone<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Pyone Myat Thu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Postdoctoral Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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