Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste - Redemptive Legacies

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Mcwilliam, McWilliam Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032400846
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240084-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general