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<p class="MsoPlainText">Laura S. Meitzner Yoder. 2015. The development eraser: fantastical schemes, aspirational distractions and high modern mega-events in the Oecusse enclave, Timor-Leste. Journal of Political Ecology 22: 299-321.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">download: <a href="http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_22/Yoder2015.pdf">http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_22/Yoder2015.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">The array of challenges to durably improving rural peoples' lives in remote regions is so daunting that it can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">be tempting to erase what is there, and to seek a blank slate. This tension is being played out in the Oecusse-Ambeno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">enclave of Timor-Leste, a region long familiar with geographic and political isolation. Residents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">now encounter a new iteration of their unique status: rapid declaration of their region as a special economic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">zone (ZEESM), with a new regional governance structure and an appointed leadership. The advent of this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">new zone is meant to catapult Oecusse from its current state of chronic infrastructure and basic development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">challenges to a booming economic center and a fount of national income in short order. Early emphasis is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">placed on rapid, major coastal infrastructure construction deemed necessary for the November 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Portuguese arrival, with the hallmarks associated with high<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">modernism and mega-event preparation worldwide: spatial re-ordering and regulation; a strong orientation to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">external inputs, resources, and services; and centralized control of rapid infrastructure change. This article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">investigates the ideological underpinnings of these plans, and explores the irony of how the proposals and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">their governance arrangement are a disjuncture with Oecusse as a historically important place. It concludes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">with observations on this project's place in the national development context, and the likely costs and impacts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">of development for the Oecusse population. Risks include further political and economic marginalization of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">the mountain-dwelling and rural population, local residents' loss of productive agricultural land and access to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">water, reduced protection through administrative exclusion from national political structures, and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">opportunity costs of misdevelopment's aspirational distractions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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