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<b>From:</b> Judith Bovensiepen <<a href="mailto:J.M.Bovensiepen@kent.ac.uk">J.M.Bovensiepen@kent.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>Date:</b> 18 December 2018 at 8:37:03 pm <br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Book: The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste</b><br>
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<p>Dear all, </p>
<p>Our book <em>The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste</em> is now published online and I thought it might be of interest to you. </p>
<p>All the chapters are open access and can be downloaded from the ANU Press website below;
<a href="http://doi.org/10.22459/PP.2018">
http://doi.org/10.22459/PP.2018</a></p>
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<p>Best wishes and season’s greetings, </p>
<p>Judith. </p>
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<p><strong>The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from
the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions
are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the
future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.</p>
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<p><strong>Contents</strong></p>
<p>Introduction: Political and spiritual visions of the future </p>
<p>Judith M. Bovensiepen</p>
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<p><strong>Part I: Looking at the future through the past</strong></p>
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<p>1. Progress and propaganda in Timor-Leste: Visions of the future</p>
<p>in comparative historical perspective </p>
<p>Douglas Kammen</p>
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<p>2. The Timor Oil Company’s network, 1956–1968: Interacting</p>
<p>internal and external infrastructures </p>
<p>Alex Grainger</p>
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<p><strong>Part II: State visions of development</strong></p>
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<p>3. Political and economic challenges of petroleum dependency</p>
<p>in Timor-Leste </p>
<p>Guteriano Neves</p>
<p> </p>
<p>4. Piloting the experimental ZEESM megaproject: Performing</p>
<p>the future in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave </p>
<p>Laura S. Meitzner Yoder</p>
<p> </p>
<p>5. Expropriation or plunder? Property rights and infrastructure</p>
<p>development in Oecusse </p>
<p>Bernardo Almeida</p>
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<p>6. Just a dream? The struggle for national resource sovereignty</p>
<p>and oil infrastructure development along Timor-Leste’s</p>
<p>south coast </p>
<p>Judith M. Bovensiepen</p>
<p> </p>
<p>7. Reconsidering reintegration: Veterans’ benefits</p>
<p>as state‑building</p>
<p>Kate Roll</p>
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<p><strong>Part III: Alternative moral economies of prosperity</strong></p>
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<p>8. Expressions of the ‘good life’ and visions of the future:</p>
<p>Reflections from Dili and Uatolari </p>
<p>Josh Trindade and Susana Barnes</p>
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<p>9. Looking back into the future: Temporalities of hope among</p>
<p>the Fataluku (Lautém)</p>
<p>Susana de Matos Viegas</p>
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<p>10. Negotiating ‘darkness’ and ‘light’: Meshworks of fluidity</p>
<p>and fire in Baucau</p>
<p>Lisa Palmer</p>
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<p>11. Misreading the night: The shadows and light of a solar</p>
<p>technology</p>
<p>Chris Shepherd</p>
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<p>12. Christianity and kultura: Visions and pastoral projects</p>
<p>Kelly Silva</p>
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<p>Afterword: A study in contrasts</p>
<p>Andrew McWilliam<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font size="2">Dr Judith Bovensiepen<br>
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology <br>
School of Anthropology and Conservation<br>
Marlowe Building (Rm 64a)<br>
University of Kent<br>
Canterbury CT2 7NR<br>
United Kingdom<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:J.M.Bovensiepen@kent.ac.uk">J.M.Bovensiepen@kent.ac.uk</a><br>
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