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Andrew McWilliam. 2020. P<i>ost-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies </i> Oxford, New York: Routledge, 284pp.<br>
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This book presents an 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.</p>
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Based on extensive comparative literature and field-based empirical research, the book explores the protracted process of recovery 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, the study 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.</p>
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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.</p>
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<div>Professor Michael Leach</div>
<div>Politics and International Relations<br>
Faculty of Health, Arts and Design<br>
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<div>Swinburne University of Technology</div>
<div>H98, PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC </div>
<div>AUSTRALIA 3122</div>
<div>Phone: +61 3 9214 5357<br>
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