[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste (ANU Press)
Michael Leach
mleach at swin.edu.au
Tue Dec 18 21:15:30 AEDT 2018
From: Judith Bovensiepen <J.M.Bovensiepen at kent.ac.uk<mailto:J.M.Bovensiepen at kent.ac.uk>>
Date: 18 December 2018 at 8:37:03 pm
Subject: Book: The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste
Dear all,
Our book The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste is now published online and I thought it might be of interest to you.
All the chapters are open access and can be downloaded from the ANU Press website below; http://doi.org/10.22459/PP.2018<http://doi.org/10.22459/PP.2018>
Best wishes and season’s greetings,
Judith.
The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste
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.
Contents
Introduction: Political and spiritual visions of the future
Judith M. Bovensiepen
Part I: Looking at the future through the past
1. Progress and propaganda in Timor-Leste: Visions of the future
in comparative historical perspective
Douglas Kammen
2. The Timor Oil Company’s network, 1956–1968: Interacting
internal and external infrastructures
Alex Grainger
Part II: State visions of development
3. Political and economic challenges of petroleum dependency
in Timor-Leste
Guteriano Neves
4. Piloting the experimental ZEESM megaproject: Performing
the future in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave
Laura S. Meitzner Yoder
5. Expropriation or plunder? Property rights and infrastructure
development in Oecusse
Bernardo Almeida
6. Just a dream? The struggle for national resource sovereignty
and oil infrastructure development along Timor-Leste’s
south coast
Judith M. Bovensiepen
7. Reconsidering reintegration: Veterans’ benefits
as state‑building
Kate Roll
Part III: Alternative moral economies of prosperity
8. Expressions of the ‘good life’ and visions of the future:
Reflections from Dili and Uatolari
Josh Trindade and Susana Barnes
9. Looking back into the future: Temporalities of hope among
the Fataluku (Lautém)
Susana de Matos Viegas
10. Negotiating ‘darkness’ and ‘light’: Meshworks of fluidity
and fire in Baucau
Lisa Palmer
11. Misreading the night: The shadows and light of a solar
technology
Chris Shepherd
12. Christianity and kultura: Visions and pastoral projects
Kelly Silva
Afterword: A study in contrasts
Andrew McWilliam
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Dr Judith Bovensiepen
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
School of Anthropology and Conservation
Marlowe Building (Rm 64a)
University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NR
United Kingdom
Email: J.M.Bovensiepen at kent.ac.uk<mailto:J.M.Bovensiepen at kent.ac.uk>
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