Spirit ecologies and customary governance in post-conflict timor-leste

L Palmer; A McWilliam

Journal article

Spirit ecologies and customary governance in post-conflict timor-leste

L Palmer, A McWilliam

Bijdragen Tot De Taal Land En Volkenkunde | BRILL | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17504003

Abstract

In post-conflict Timor-Leste, the concepts of spirit ecologies and intergenerational wellbeing direct our attention to the ways in which Timorese people derive strength from house-based family networks as well as protective and productive spiritual relations with living nature. These practices of exchange resonate with a comparative body of research that has described similar 'spiritscapes' elsewhere in Southeast Asia and their relevance for social and environmental governance. Exploring the diverse ontologies of particular Timorese 'spirit ecologies' and their embedding in a concept of more-than-human 'intergenerational wellbeing', in this article we investigate the renewed significance of ..

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Lisa Palmer Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

Fieldwork and research was supported by funding through two Australian Research Council Grants (DP160104519 and DP1095131). The authors also wish to acknowledge and thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. All errors and omissions are ours.