1st Edition
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor
By Christopher Shepherd
Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three political regimes and across four case studies of projects delivered by various national or... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Histories 1. Pacification and coffee (1769 – 1909) 2. Military colonization and agriculture (1910 – 1945) 3. Third world development and the Cold War (1945 – 1975) 4. Development and ethnocide (1975 – 1999) 5. Postcolonial development and governmentality (1999 +) Part 2: Ethnographic Encounters 6. Volunteering development: technology-driven social idealism 7. Market utopias and fragmented communities 8. Social engineering: a ‘farmer first’ green revolution 9. Conservation, state managerialism and ‘alternative development’ 10. Conclusion
Biography
Christopher Shepherd is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University. His research interests include politics of development in East Timor and Peru.
