Citizens by waiting: Timorese young adults between state politics and customary authority

Brinke, Sara ten

doi:10.1080/13621025.2018.1538318

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“…Timor Leste is a young nation with considerable, yet disputed, oil resources and an entrepreneurial class within the government. Contemporary features of the national-development plans (ten Brinke, 2018) therefore include the planning and development of special economic zones giving tax reductions catering to transnational investors and consumers, and the rapid development of infrastructures. And yet, despite Timor Leste’s rapidly changing infrastructures and aspirational economic megaprojects, it ranks among the highest in the region for maternal mortality rates and malnutrition.…”

Section: Resonating Potentialities: Permaculture and Timor Lestementioning

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Worlding Permaculture School Gardens: Translocal Connectivities and Minor Utopias in Timor Leste

Stodulka

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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In times of accelerated globalization, with the overheated circulation of lifestyle desires and future imaginaries of the good life, children’s education has become a site of contested governmental, activist, and entrepreneurial assemblages that connect translocal actors and communities. The literature on transnational education has demonstrated that knowledge circulation prompts the production of “mobile worlds”—the movement of bodies, ideas, and finances. This article extends this well-established body of research and focuses on the connectivities of “minor utopias” emerging from within and across borders. It builds on past ethnographic work in Indonesia as a route into a discussion of recent observations of the emerging national permaculture curriculum pertaining to primary school education in Timor Leste. To theorize the relations and processes that connect translocal actors and communities, I draw on the concept of “worlding”—the continual process of emplacing translocal ideas and assemblages.

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Section: Resonating Potentialities: Permaculture and Timor Lestementioning

confidence: 99%

Worlding Permaculture School Gardens: Translocal Connectivities and Minor Utopias in Timor Leste

Stodulka

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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Following the fish inland: understanding fish distribution networks for rural development and nutrition security

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© 2019, International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. In developing countries, smallscale fisheries are both a pivotal source of livelihood and essential for the nutritional intake of larger food insecure populations. Distribution networks that move fish from landing sites to coastal and inland consumers offer entry points to address livelihood enhancement and food security objectives of rural development initiatives. To be able to utilize fish distribution networks to address national development targets, a sound understanding of how local systems function and are organized is imperative. Here we present an in-depth examination of a domestic market chain in Timor-Leste that supplies small-pelagic fish to coastal and inland communities. We present the market chain's different commodity flows and its distributive reach, and show how social organization strongly influences people's access to fish, by determining availability and affordability. We suggest there is potential to advance Timor-Leste's food and nutrition security targets by engaging with local influential actors and existing social relations across fish distribution networks. We argue that in addition to developing improvements to fish distribution infrastructure, utilizing existing or locally familiar practices, organization and social capital offers opportunity for long term self-sufficiency. Livelihood and food security improvement initiatives involving natural resource-dependent communities are more likely to succeed if they incorporate rural development perspectives, which frame directly targeted interventions ('intentional' development) within broader structural contexts ('immanent' development).

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Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey

Gencer

Selçuk

Albayrak

et al. 2022

European Journal of Social Work

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Citizens by waiting: Timorese young adults between state politics and customary authority

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Worlding Permaculture School Gardens: Translocal Connectivities and Minor Utopias in Timor Leste

Worlding Permaculture School Gardens: Translocal Connectivities and Minor Utopias in Timor Leste

Following the fish inland: understanding fish distribution networks for rural development and nutrition security

Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey

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