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The Promise of Prosperity

First Page
Preliminary pages
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

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