The Promise of Prosperity : Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste.

Intro -- List of figures -- Acronyms -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Political and spiritual visions of the future -- Part I: Looking at the future through the past -- 1. Progress and propaganda in Timor-Leste: Visions of the future in comparative historical perspective -- 2. The Timor Oil Company's network, 1956-1968: Interacting internal and external infrastructures -- Part II: State visions of development -- 3. Political and economic challenges of petroleum dependency in Timor-Leste -- 4. Piloting the experimental ZEESM megaproject: Performing the future in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave -- 5. Expropriation or plunder? Property rights and infrastructure development in Oecusse -- 6. Just a dream? The struggle for national resource sovereignty and oil infrastructure development along Timor-Leste's south coast -- 7. Reconsidering reintegration: Veterans' benefits as state‑building -- Part III: Alternative moral economies of prosperity -- 8. Expressions of the 'good life' and visions of the future: Reflections from Dili and Uatolari -- 9. Looking back into the future: Temporalities of hope among the Fataluku (Lautém) -- 10. Negotiating 'darkness' and 'light': Meshworks of fluidity and fire in Baucau -- 11. Misreading the night: The shadows and light of a solar technology -- 12. Christianity and kultura: Visions and pastoral projects -- Afterword: A study in contrasts.

For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity.

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