Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-LesteKelly Silva, Lisa Palmer, Teresa Cunha. 

 - Amsterdam  Leiden University Press  2023. 
 - 1 online resource (326 pages)  illustrations 
<br/><br/> "Amsterdam University Press" 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> <Cite>Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste</cite> 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 <cite>and</cite> immaterial aspects. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9400604408 9789400604407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Asian Studies AS Asia Pacific AP Contemporary Society CONTEMP SOC Economics and Finance ECON & FIN Diverse economies, Economic interdependencies, Timor-Leste, History, Culture 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC450  / .E266 2023