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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Introduction
- 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’
- Chapter 2. Indexing social space: A marketplace in Timor-Leste
- 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
- LOCAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
- Chapter 4. On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 14. The frente ekonomika (economic front): Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia
- About the Authors
- Index
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