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Review: For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country's political leaders, revenue from the country's oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world's newest and poorest nation-states.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Political and spiritual visions of the future / Judith M. Bovensiepen; Part 1. Looking at the future through the past. Progress and propaganda in Timor-Leste: Visions of the future in comparative historical perspective / Douglas Kammen; The Timor Oil Company's network, 1956-1968: Interacting internal and external infrastructures / Alex Grainger
• Part 2. State visions of development. Political and economic challenges of petroleum dependency in Timor-Leste / Guteriano Neves; Piloting the experimental ZEESM megaproject: Performing the future in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave / Laura S. Meitzner Yoder; Expropriation or plunder? Property rights and infrastructure development in Oecusse / Bernardo Almeida; Just a dream? The struggle for national resource sovereignty and oil infrastructure development along Timor-Leste's south coast / Judith M. Bovensiepen; Reconsidering reintegration: Veterans' benefits as state-building / Kate Roll
• Part 3. Alternative moral economies of prosperity. Expressions of the 'good life' and visions of the future: Reflections from Dili and Uatolari / Josh Trindade and Susana Barnes; Looking back into the future: Temporalities of hope among the Fataluku (Lautém) / Susana de Matos Viegas; Negotiating 'darkness' and 'light': Meshworks of fluidity and fire in Baucau / Lisa Palmer; Misreading the night: The shadows and light of a solar technology / Chris Shepherd; Christianity and kultura: Visions and pastoral projects / Kelly Silva; Afterword: A study in contrasts / Andrew McWilliam.

Contributors:

Bovensiepen, Judith M.

Australian National University Press

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Promise of prosperity : visions of the future in Timor-Leste (Canberra : ANU Press, ©2018 — ISBN 9781760462529)

Related Series:

Pacific series

Subjects:

Timor-Leste — Forecasting

Forecasting

Timor-Leste

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS649.3 .T447 2018eb

ISBNs:

1760462535 (electronic bk.)
9781760462536 (electronic bk.)
9781760462529 (paperback) [Invalid]
1760462527 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1080546339