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<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew McWilliam. 2020. <i>Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies</i>, Abingdon<i>:
</i>Routledge, 166pp.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Post-Conflict-Social-and-Economic-Recovery-in-Timor-Leste-Redemptive-Legacies/McWilliam/p/book/9780367366681">https://www.routledge.com/Post-Conflict-Social-and-Economic-Recovery-in-Timor-Leste-Redemptive-Legacies/McWilliam/p/book/9780367366681</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding
and restoring local community life, and the budding prosperity that has flowed from participation in spontaneous circular labour migration and the remittance benefits that have followed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Based on extensive comparative literature and field-based empirical research, the book explores the protracted process of cultural and economic revival following a generation-long period of military repression and a sustained struggle for
national independence. With a focus on the experiences of Fataluku ethno-linguistic communities in Timor-Leste, the study offers nuanced perspectives on the legacies of conflict and local forms of governance, the revitalisation of customary exchange and ancestral
religion. Presenting 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Google preview pdf: <a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_url?url=https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download%3Fdac%3DC2019-0-05398-3%26isbn%3D9781000025897%26format%3DgooglePreviewPdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=16467608368616715958&scisig=AAGBfm0V-o6L2oDmpqQyt9dK9Xt5sDfeXg&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=13O6fdEAAAAJ:2842375135189769022:AAGBfm23MEzUC8eClbijP7dED3Bu0vZq4w">
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Sr1dCq7Bw7HJy6wDCEAzeD?domain=scholar.google.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Professor Michael Leach</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Politics and International Relations
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Faculty of Health, Arts and Design</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Swinburne University of Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">H98, PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">AUSTRALIA 3122</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New book (now available in paperback):
</span><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Nation-Building-and-National-Identity-in-Timor-Leste/Leach/p/book/9780367025243"><span style="color:blue">https://www.routledge.com/Nation-Building-and-National-Identity-in-Timor-Leste/Leach/p/book/9780367025243</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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