"The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future" Edited by Dennis Shoesmith, Charles Darwin University Press, ISBN 978 0 980384 62 AU$29.95+$7P&P, Paperback, xi+108pp, 250x175mm
This book offers a collection of papers originating in a symposium, 'The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future', held at Charles Darwin University on 13 November 2006. Together, the papers in this volume address the historical, social and political causes of unrest in Timor-Leste, explaining the violence and rebellion of 2006 in a larger context. By doing this they identify ways to respond to the causes of unrest, particularly the social and developmental strategies the East Timorese can pursue in order to negotiate the transition to a stable, democratic and viable state. Contributors include James Cotton, Jennifer Drysdale, Steven Farram, Trevor Le Lievre, Andrew McWilliam, Ron May, David Mearns, Rod Nixon, Kate Reid-Smith, and Dennis Shoesmith. The editor, Dennis Shoesmith is Associate Professor of Politics at Charles Darwin University. He has worked as a consultant in Timor-Leste with the United Nations and USAID.
"East Timor: Beyond Independence"
Edited by Damien Kingsbury and Michael Leach,
Monash University Press,
ISBN 978 1 876924 49 2
rrp AU$36.95
Paperback, 320pp, page size C5 229 x 162mm
This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since independence, examining the major themes of development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education, and language policy. Though the country was initially lauded as a case study in successful state-building, the crisis of 2006 demonstrated that East Timor had more in common with other post-colonial, post-conflict societies than some of these earlier optimistic assessments suggested.
East Timor continues to attract the interest and attention of governments, scholars, development institutions and aid workers as a society rebuilding itself after almost a quarter of a century of profound trauma, and consecutive eras of colonialism.
Covering the era from the independence referendum in August 1999 to the political crisis in 2006, and future prospects and challenges, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding the challenges facing the first new nation of the 21st century.
"EAST TIMOR:
A Country at the Crossroads of Asia and the Pacific
A Geo-historical Atlas" by Frederic Durand. (Silkworm Books, 2006)
ISBN-13: 978-974-9575-98-7;
ISBN-10: 974-9575-98-9
198pp, 290x210mm, full-color maps throughout
This atlas highlights the specific features and characteristics of
the new country of East Timor. Using statistical documentary
resources available since the colonial period, its 136 colorful maps show how material constraints and local, regional, and world stakes have shaped Timor's destiny, both past and present.
Frederic Durand teaches geography at Toulouse Il-Le Mirail
University, France. Author of several works on Southeast Asia, the
Malay world, and Indonesia, he published the French version of this
geo-historical atlas of East Timor in 2002, and the book,
Catholicisme et Protestantisme dans lle de Timor: 1556-2003, in 2004.
