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Contents |
Introduction / Kelly Silva, Lisa Palmer and Teresa Cunha -- Glimpses of the colonial economy -- The colonial bazaar in 'Portuguese Timor': the taming of the 'savage marketers' / Lúcio Sousa -- Indexing social space: a marketplace in Timor-Leste / David Hicks -- 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 -- On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste / Susanna Barnes -- The serimónia network: economic mobilisation through rituals in the hamlet of Faulara, Liquiçá / Alberto Fidalgo-Castro and Enrique Alonso-Población -- Household decision-making processes and family resources: a case study from Viqueque / Josh Trindade and Ivete de Oliveira -- Gift economy and the acknowledgement of debt: (on) living and eating with 'mystical' actors in Timorese houses / Renata Nogueira da Silva -- The work of women in Eluli and land economies in Timor-Leste / Teresa Cunha and Mina Bessa -- Economic transformations -- Land and diet under pressure: the impacts of Suai Supply Base in Kamanasa Kingdom / Brunna Crespi -- The socio-cultural benefits of emerging market-based instruments for carbon in Timor-Leste / Lisa Palmer and Sue Jackson -- China's engagement in Timor-Leste's economy / Laurentina 'Mica' Barreto Soares -- Migrant work and homecoming: experiences of Timorese seasonal workers / Ann Wigglesworth and Abel Boavida dos Santos -- Refashioning Fataluku origin houses / Andrew McWilliam -- The frente ekonomika (economic front): Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia / Michael Rose. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Timor-Leste -- Economic conditions.
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Society and culture: general.
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Political economy.
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Economic systems and structures.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Diversity & Inclusion *
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
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Economic history
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Timor-Leste https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvMCYtbQtWCYymvyXhCQq
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Cultural policies and debates.
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Political economy.
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Economic systems and structures.
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Added Author |
Silva, Kelly, editor.
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Palmer, Lisa, editor.
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Cunha, Teresa, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9789087283957 |
ISBN |
9789400604407 ebook |
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9400604408 ebook |
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9789087283957 hardcover |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000073861354 |
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