Understanding Timor-Leste 2013, Volume II collects peer-reviewed papers from the Timor-Leste Studies Association (TLSA) conference held at the Liceu Campus of the National University of Timor-Lorosa’e (UNTL), Dili, on 15–16 July 2013. It was published in 2014. The conference ran in Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian and English, and more than 150 Timorese and international delegates presented. For tourism researchers it matters mainly for two papers on tourism history and branding, within a wide range of papers on Timorese society, history and development.
Key contents
- Tourism papers:
- “History and future of tourism development in Timor-Leste”, Denis Tolkach
- “The case for developing a destination brand for Timor-Leste”, Sara Currie
- Related history: “Two journeys in Indonesian-occupied Timor-Leste, 1991 and 1997”, Steven Farram (the volume’s first paper).
- Other themes: the political economy of a “rentier state” and the Petroleum Fund (Charles Scheiner), decentralisation, labour unions, women’s activism and gender in state-building, civil society, education and adult literacy, agriculture, coffee and forest livelihoods, climate (ENSO and rainfall), public health, and urban security in Dili.
- Festschrift panel honouring historian Helen Hill, and papers in Indonesian.
Document details
- Publisher: Timor-Leste Studies Association (printed by Swinburne Press)
- Editors: Hannah Loney, Antero B. da Silva, Nuno Canas Mendes, Alarico da Costa Ximenes, Clinton Fernandes
- Year: 2014 (conference held July 2013)
- ISBN: 978-0-85590-834-8
- Languages: mainly English, with a foreword in Tetum, Portuguese, English and Indonesian, and some papers in Indonesian
- Pages: 302
- Download: PDF (timorleste.tl)