Peskiza foun kona-ba Timor-Leste / Novas investigações sobre Timor-Leste / New research on Timor-Leste / Penelitian baru tentang Timor-Leste (Vols I and II)
Edited by Michael Leach, Nuno Canas Mendes, Antero B. da Silva, Bob Boughton and Alarico da Costa Ximenes, Hawthorn: Swinburne Press, 2012, 395pp. AU$60 (hardcopy)
The papers included in this volume were presented at the Timor-Leste Studies Association’s Communicating New Research on Timor-Leste conference, held at the Centro Formação João Paulo II, Comoro, Dili, Timor-Leste, 30 June – 1 July 2011. Papers in the collection are divided into four language sections (Tetum-Dili, Portuguese, English and Bahasa Indonesia), along with a special section on Adult and Popular education.

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Lia Maklokek – Prefácio – Foreword – Prakata
Peskiza foun kona ba Timor Leste
1. Timor-Leste no komplexidade Paises Sub-dezenvolvidu
Antero Benedito da Silva ho Mario da Silva Carvalho
2. Lulik: Valor Fundamental Timoroan Nian
Jose ‘Josh’ Trindade
3. Peskiza No Treinamentu JSMP Konaba Lei Jontra Violensia Domestika
Francisca da Silva
4.Arkiolojia Konstrusaun Ba Nasaun: Importansia Hosi Matenek Arkiolojia Ba Indentidade Nasional Timor-Leste Nian
Nuno Vasco Oliveira
5. Medisina Sosial iha Timor-Leste
Tim Anderson [Tradusaun: Nuno Rodriguez]
6. Sistema Halo To’os Uza Lehe Hodi Hasa’e Produsaun, Hamate Du’ut No Hadia Rai
Marcos Correia Vidal ho Rob Williams
7. Varidade ba batar balu, bele hetan produsaun aas, ho bele tahan ba fuhuk
Felisberto A. Soares, Joao Bosco da Costa RB, Leandro C.R. Pereira Abril de Fatima ho Robert L. Williams
Novas Investigações sobre Timor-Leste
8. Arqueologia e Nation Building: Importância do Conhecimento Arqueológico Para a Identidade Nacional de Timor-Leste
Nuno Vasco Oliveira
9. Registos Escritos, Memórias, Objectos e Saberes… A Importância do Conhecimento e da Recuperação da Informação Histórica Sobre Timor Para a História de Timor-Leste
Ana Cristina Roque, Nuno Vasco Oliveira,Vítor Rosado Marques
10. Para além do visível. Percepções de direitos humanos nos murais e graffiti de Timor-Leste
Marisa Ramos Gonçalves
11. Despontar do romance em Timor-Leste
Isabel Moutinho
12. Riqueza ou preço da noiva? Regimes morais em disputa nas negociações de casamento entre elites urbanas timorenses
Kelly Silva
13. Apresentar novas investigações sobre Timor-Leste: Percursos, estratégias e representações socioculturais de um grupo de estudantes timorenses em Portugal
Dália Cristóvão, Pedro Nogueira
14. O impacto da agricultura itinerante no bem-estar das populações rurais e nos ecossistemas naturais e semi-naturais de Timor-Leste
Maria Jesus, Pedro Henriques, Pedro Laranjeira, Vanda Narciso
15. Produção, consumo e importância da cultura do arroz: da colonização portuguesa a Timor-Leste independente
Jorge da Silva, Pedro Henriques, Fátima Jorge, Vanda Narciso
16. O impacto do desempenho da Cooperativa Café Timor na satisfação e qualidade de vida dos seus membros
Carlos da Conceição de Deus, Pedro Henriques, Fátima Jorge, Vanda Narciso
17. O papel dos sistemas tradicionais de uso da terra no bem-estar das populações rurais de Timor-Leste
Pedro Damião de Sousa Henriques, Vanda Narciso, Manuel Branco
18. Notas sobre a política externa portuguesa e os interesses portugueses em Timor-Leste
Nuno Canas Mendes
New Research on Timor-Leste
19. Talking in the fourth language: Oral English class discussion strategies and topic preferences in a Timor-Leste university
Marcos Antonio Amaral, Agustinho da Conceição Anuno, Jose da Costa, Sancho Patricio, and James McLellan
20. Aid: is it worth it?
Tim Anderson
21. Developing Museum to Museum Cultural Engagement between Australian and Timor-Leste
Cecilia Assis and Robyn Sloggett
22. Health Professionals and Lawyers Understandings of Domestic Violence and the Domestic Violence Law: the 2011 Judicial System Monitoring Program survey
Suzanne Belton
23. A Political Ecology of Land Tenure in Timor Leste: Environmental Contestation and Livelihood Impacts in the Nino Konis Santana National Park
Alexander Cullen
24. Agronomic Responses and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Local and Introduced Corn (Zea Mays L.) Genotypes to Different Levels and Sources of Nitrogen in Two Corn Growing Areas in Timor-Leste
Agustinho da Costa Ximenes
25. Popular Socialist Democracy of the RDTL 1 1975-1978
Antero Benedito da Silva
26. Social & Emotional Learning
Mariano Dos Santos
27. The role of participatory arts in social change in Timor Leste: discussing outcomes for project stakeholders
Kim Dunphy
28. A preliminary investigation into the history of the old fort at Maubara
Steven Farram
29. Making Histories: Whose Stories Are Told? Some Considerations From Maubara
Steven Farram and David Mearns
30. If My Aunty Had Balls, She’d Be My Uncle: Dubious Counter-Factuals in East Timorese History
Clinton Fernandes
31. Modernising Timor-Leste: Moving beyond ideology
Damian Grenfell
32. Gender Issues in Timor-Leste and the Pacific Islands: ‘Practical Needs’ and ‘Strategic Interests’ revisited
Helen M. Hill
33. Mari Alkatiri: Islamic Identity and legitimacy in Timorese (inter-)National Politics
Melissa Johnston
34. Family influences on long-term and short-term child growth in Ossu area, Timor-Leste
Debra S Judge, Katherine A Sanders, Nadine Reghupathy, Pedro Canisio Amaral, and Lincoln H Schmitt
35. Domestic Violence in Timor-Leste: A New Law and New Obligations to Face Old Challenges
Amrita Kapur
36. Information Access and Community Empowerment: The impact of media on civil and civic engagement in Bobonaro, Timor-Leste
Jessica Knowles
37. FITUN: A preliminary history of a clandestine movement
Michael Leach
38. Women’s Activism in Timor-Leste: A Case Study on Fighting Women
Hannah Loney
39. The impact of policy on language and learning: the experience of teachers
Marie Quinn
40. Timorese teachers as agents for change or replicators of the past?
Ritesh Shah
41. State-led prosperity or ‘runaway state-building’? Timor-Leste’s new development strategy
Dennis Shoesmith
42. Negotiating nation and tradition: Analyzing East-Timorese state-formation from the perspective of Brazilian Anthropology
Kelly Silva and Daniel S. Simião
43. Mother tongue-based multilingual education: A new direction for Timor-Leste
Kerry Taylor-Leech and Agustinho Caet
44. Prospects for the Establishment of a Community-Based Tourism Network in Timor-Leste
Denis Tolkach, Brian King, and Michael Pearlman
45. Timor history 1974-1999: Finding, preserving and accessing primary sources
John Waddingham
New Research on Timor-Leste : Adult and Popular Education
46. Adult and Popular Education in Timor Leste
Bob Boughton
47. Reflections on papers delivered: An international perspective: Remarks on papers presented in the thematic stream, ‘Adult and Popular Education In Development’, Understanding Timor-Leste Conference
Daniel Schugurensky
48. Maintaining a Civic Nation: social cohesion in Timor-Leste
Paddy Tobias
49. Becoming a Nation of Readers in Timor-Leste
Benjamim de Araújo e Corte-Real and Sjaak Kroon
50. Discourses about adult literacy and about liberation interwoven: recollections of the adult literacy campaign initiated in 1974/5
Estêvão Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones
51. Adult literacy in multilingual Timor-Leste: First results of a study
Danielle Boon and Jeanne Kurvers
52. Fataluku Language and Literacy Uses and Attitudes in Timor-Leste
Edegar da Conceição Savio, Jeanne Kurvers, Aone van Engelenhoven and Sjaak Kroon
53. Adult literacy, political participation and democracy
Bob Boughton
Penelitian Baru Mengenai Timor Leste
54. Kepentingan dan Diplomasi Timor Leste di ASEAN
Alarico da Costa Ximenes
55. Pengaruh Variasi Sudut Datang Pipa Pancar dan Debit Air Terhadap Unjuk Kerja Turbin Arus Lintang Tingkat ke Dua
Domingos de Sousa Freitas
New Research on Timor-Leste – Refereed On-line Papers
56. Social Medicine in Timor Leste
Tim Anderson
57. Learning Tetun as a Malae
Catharina Williams-van Klinken
58. Lulik: The Core of Timorese Values
Jose ‘Josh’ Trindade
59. Beyond the visible: perceptions of human rights in Timor-Leste street art
Marisa Ramos Goncaļves
60. The role of traditional land use systems in the well-being of rural Timor-Leste
Pedro Damião de Sousa Henriques, Vanda Narciso, Manuel Branco