Full Description
Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have responded to these transformations. The collection challenges hegemonic, market-driven analyses which characterise Timor-Leste's economy as weak, deformed and homogenised and demonstrates the myriad of socially embedded ways through which Timor-Leste's economy is diverse, richly complex and continually brought into being. To frame the analysis of these complex economic dynamics in Timor-Leste, the collection's introduction develops the concept of economic ecologies: the assemblages of institutions and their localised and historical relationships mobilised for reproducing collective life, both in its material and immaterial aspects.
Contents
Table of contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor-Leste (Kelly Silva, Lisa Palmer and Teresa Cunha)
GLIMPSES OF THE COLONIAL ECONOMY
Chapter 1 - The colonial bazaar in 'Portuguese Timor': The taming of the 'savage marketers' (Lúcio Sousa)
Chapter 2 - Indexing social space. A marketplace in Timor-Leste (David Hicks)
Chapter 3 - Flirting with Ford, reverting to race? Housing, urban planning and the making of an economic and social order in Portuguese Timor in trans-colonial perspective, 1959-1963 (Alex Grainger)
LOCAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
Chapter 4 - On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste (Susanna Barnes)
Chapter 5 - The serimónia network: Economic mobilisation through rituals in the hamlet of Faulara, Liquiçá (Alberto Fidalgo-Castro and Enrique Alonso-Población)
Chapter 6 - Household Decision-Making Processes and Family Resources: A Case Study from Viqueque (Josh Trindade and Ivete de Oliveira)
Chapter 7 - Gift economy and the acknowledgement of debt: (On) Living and eating with 'mystical' actors in Timorese houses (Renata Nogueira da Silva)
Chapter 8 - The work of women in Eluli and land economies in Timor-Leste (Teresa Cunha and Mina Bessa)
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 9 - Land and diet under pressure: The impacts of Suai Supply Base in Kamanasa Kingdom (Brunna Crespi)
Chapter 10 - The socio-cultural benefits of emerging market-based instruments for carbon in Timor-Leste (Lisa Palmer and Sue Jackson)
Chapter 11 - China's Engagement in Timor-Leste's Economy (Laurentina 'Mica' Barreto Soares)
Chapter 12 - Migrant Work and Homecoming: Experiences of Timorese seasonal workers (Ann Wigglesworth and Abel Boavida dos Santos)
Chapter 13 - Refashioning Fataluku Origin Houses (Andrew McWilliam)
Chapter 14 - The frente ekonomika (economic front). Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia (Michael Rose)
About the authors
Index
