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Struggling Geographies: Rethinking livelihood and locality in Timor-Leste
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pannell, Sandra N. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | The island of Timor could be regarded—to borrow Edward Said’s expression— as a ‘geography which struggles’ (1993:6). Our understanding of this geography is dominated by a discourse of destruction and degradation. Writings about the island and its people commonly talk about the ‘Timor tragedy’ or the ‘Timor problem’. As James Dunn’s account reveals, the tragedy of Timor (see Dunn 1983:xi) is a story of gross injustice and local suffering, linked to the dismal failure of the international community to respond to Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1974. Since independence in 2002, it seems that ‘poverty and unemployment’ are contributing to a ‘new tragedy’ in one of the world’s latest nation-states (BBC n.d.). |
| Starting Page | 217 |
| Ending Page | 239 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.22459/lltl.12.2011.10 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p160561/pdf/ch10.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.22459/lltl.12.2011.10 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
