Justice and Governance in East Timor : Indigenous Approaches and the 'New Subsistence State'

ISBN-13: 9780415665735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 268 str.

Rod Nixon

Opis

This volume proposes the typology of the new subsistence state as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges typically faced in jurisdictions characterised by subsistence social and economic relations. Nixon then examines ways in which the case-study of East Timor conforms to the typology of the new subsistence state.

Recenzje

"Although a large and specialised literature has now emerged on the East Timor question, Nixon’s doctoral dissertation-turned-book is undoubtedly exceptional for its scholarship and its lessons. With merit, Nixon’s thesis of the New Subsistence State as tested against East Timor should give pause to all development workers intruding in postcolonial environments outside of Western models and experience. Entering print almost ten years following the birth of the new nation, this is a timely book and a must-read for students of East Timor and development workers in general." - Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43:2, 391-396 (2013).

Spis treści

Introduction 1. States, Weak States and New Subsistence States 2. State Development in East Timor: Geographic and Historical Factors in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods 3. The Emergence of Politics and Political Conflict: Developments April 1974 to December 1975 4. The Indonesian Period: An Assessment of the Consequences for State Development 5. The Transition to Statehood 6. Governance in a New State 7. Timorese Systems of Justice and Conflict Resolution and the New Subsistence State 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Rod Nixon is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia. His research interests include state-building and governance in non-state social contexts, and he has worked as a consultant for clients including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.