[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: Kelly Silva (ed.) 'Performing Modernities: Pedagogies and technologies in the making of contemporary Timor-Leste' (ABA, 2020)

[Michael Leach]

Kelly Silva (ed.). 2020. Performing Modernities: Pedagogies and Technologies in the Making of Contemporary Timor-Leste, Rio de Janeiro: ABA Publicações, 227 pp.

Full text available here (pdf): http://www.aba.abant.org.br/administrator/product/files/000157_00134636.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1rULj9elb1nSlHshChiKhuAh40qNcXTGs9Ea7QaImzzzvkfxnIipLfb6k

As the transformative processes and technologies of globalisation
are being embraced across the world, their influential and
disruptive possibilities for change are challenging many
comfortable and established orthodoxies. In this new analysis of
contemporary ethnographic realities in Timor-Leste, Kelly Silva
(University of Brasilia) and her contributing authors, frame these
processes as a productive and mutually reinforcing tension
between institutions of kultura (culture) and those of modernity.
The Performing Modernities collection, offers a range of vital and
engaging ethnographic perspectives on contemporary social
realities in the fledgling nation of Timor-Leste. Published as an
English language book, to facilitate a global readership, the
collection's origins and inspiration derive from the careful
investigations of its Brazilian researchers, who bring new
questions and comparative ideas to fine-grained ethnographic
meditations on local worlds in transition (Professor Andrew McWilliam).



Professor Michael Leach
Politics and International Relations
Faculty of Health, Arts and Design
Swinburne University of Technology
H98, PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC
AUSTRALIA 3122
Phone: +61 3 9214 5357

<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff-profiles/view.php?who=mleach>
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