1st Edition
Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste Redemptive Legacies
By Andrew McWilliam
Copyright 2020
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Redemptive Legacies; 2. Paths to Recovery, The return to custom; 3. Landscapes of Violence and Resistance; 4. New Fataluku Labour Migration; 5. Distant Ancestors, Facebook families and the Digital Connect; 6. Landscapes of Remittance and Return; 7. Customary Moderns
Biography
Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Science at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is Editor in Chief of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste (2019).
