Andrew McWilliam - Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY TIMOR-LESTE

Reflecting on the legacies of Timor-Lestes remarkable journey from colonialism to sovereign and democratic Independence, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of life in Timor-Leste.

Following an introduction and overview of the country, the Handbook is divided into five parts:

• Politics and governance

• Economics and development

• Social policies and the terms of inclusion

• Cultural impacts

• Regional relations

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook covers the principal concerns that have contributed significantly to the shape and character of contemporary Timor-Leste. It offers a timely and valuable reference guide for students, scholars and policymakers with an interest in International Relations, Southeast Asian Studies and Peace Studies.

Andrew McWilliam is a Professor of Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is a specialist in the anthropology of Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. He is co-author of Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict: Land, Custom and Law in East Timor (2012).

Michael Leach is a Professor of Politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He has researched and published widely on the politics and history of Timor-Leste and is the author of Nation Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste (Routledge, 2017).

Edited by Andrew McWilliam
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First published 2019

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Names: McWilliam, Andrew, editor. | Leach, Michael, 1968 editor.

Title: Routledge handbook of contemporary Timor-Leste / edited by Andrew

McWilliam and Michael Leach.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018054230 (print) | LCCN 2018054961 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781315623177 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781317225225 (Adobe Reader) |

ISBN 9781317225218 (ePub) | ISBN 9781317225201 (Mobipocket Encrypted) |

ISBN 9781138654563 | ISBN 9781138654563 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781315623177 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Timor-LestePolitics and government2002 |

Timor-LesteSocial conditions21st century. | Timor-Leste

Economic conditions21st century.

Classification: LCC DS649.7 (ebook) | LCC DS649.7 .R68 2019

(print) | DDC 959.8704dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054230

ISBN: 978-1-138-65456-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-62317-7 (ebk)

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I Made Andi Arsana is a Lecturer in the Department of Geodetic Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He produces maps and charts visualising maritime situations (conflicts and claims) in many parts of the world. His research concerns geospatial aspects of the law of the sea, which includes maritime boundaries and related disputes.

Susana Barnes received her doctorate in anthropology from Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include customary governance and land tenure, intergenerational wellbeing and healing, kinship and exchange, colonial and postcolonial history and international development. She is currently an Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Angie Bexley has been engaged with Timorese politics, youth and generational change since 2002, and has a PhD in anthropology from the Australian National University. With Maj Nygaard Christensen, she edited the volume Fieldwork in Timor-Leste: Understanding Social Change through Practice, published by NIAS Press in 2017. She is currently an Advisor to the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment and a Fellow at the Crawford School for Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Andrey Damaledo holds a PhD in Anthropology (ANU, 2016) with a prize-winning thesis (Anne Bates Prize 2017). His research examines ideas of displacement, belonging and citizenship amongst Pro-autonomy East Timorese in West Timor. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, Japan, researching a new project on commodity networks, transnationalism and peacebuilding amongst Indonesians in Timor-Leste. Andrey is the author of Divided Loyalties: Displacement, Belonging and Citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor (ANU Press, 2018). In addition to academic scholarship, he has years of experience in the Indonesian public sector as a senior development planner at the Regional Development Planning Agency (BAPPEDA) in Indonesias Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

Rui Graa Feij (DPhil Oxford 1984) is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and Institute for Contemporary History, Nova University of Lisboa, Portugal. His interests include history and theory of democracy and the performance of semi-presidentialism, with a focus on Portugal and Timor-Leste. He has spent extensive periods in Timor-Leste over the past 15 years, having been a UN advisor to the Presidency of the Republic under Xanana Gusmo. He recently authored Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste 19992012 (2016) and co-edited with Susana de Matos Viegas Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste: dynamics of social and cultural cohabitations (Routledge, 2017).

David Hicks is a life member of Clare College, University of Cambridge, and a Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. He holds Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of London, UK. He has carried out ethnographic research in Timor-Leste since 1966 and has published widely. His most recent monograph is