Table des matières
Christine Cabasset-Semedo et Frédéric Durand
IntroductionPart 1. A Difficult Transition toward a New Nation
Nuno Canas Mendes
Multidimensional identity construction: Challenges for State-building in East TimorChristine Schenk
Negotiating statehood and humanitarian assistance in Timor-Leste: an incompatible pair?Henriette Sachse
Reconciliation in Timor-Leste and the Role of the Media: The Casa de Produção AudiovisualPart 2. Socio-cultural identities and factors in question
Paulo Castro Seixas
Translation in Crisis, Crisis as TranslationAlexander Loch
Nation building at the village level: First the house, then the Church and finally a modern stateLúcio Sousa
Denying peripheral status, claiming a role in the nation: sacred words and ritual practices as legitimating identity of a local community in the context of the new nation- 1 - The renewal of ritual practice in East Timor: periphery or core of the nation?
- 2 - The role of local communities and traditional rulers in the context of the nation (emic vision)
- 3 – Tradition - adat manifold dimensions
- 4 - Claiming centrality to the interior: the case of a Bunak domain
- Conclusion: disputed centres of East Timor – roots of a nation?
Part 3. Politics, legitimacy and electoral processes
Kelly Silva
Suffering, Dignity and Recognition. Sources of political legitimacy in independent East TimorSara Gonzalez Devant
Crisis and Nation-building in Timor-LestePart 4. Tracks for the construction of the future
Frédéric Durand
Crisis and uncertainties as a sign of a lack of Timorese project of society- 1 - Pertinence and ambiguity in concepts of “viability” and “poverty”
- 2 - A country destroyed and rebuilt “from scratch”?
- 3 - 1999-2006: a problematic transition between aid with ambiguous effects and political crisis
- 4 - 2007-2008: elections and rebellious attacks revealing instability
- 5 - Ideologically contradictory and sometimes naïve visions
- 6 - Which “project of society” for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste?
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Human safety, security and resilience: Making narrative spaces for dissent in Timor-LesteChristine Cabasset-Semedo
Thinking about tourism in Timor-Leste in the era of sustainable development. A tourism policy emerging from grass-roots levels