MINI-WORKSHOP

Evolving research directions in Timor-Leste: land, water, governance.

Oradores:

Laura Yoder

Lisa Palmer

Susanna Barnes (tbc)

Laura Meitzner Yoder Is Director and John Stott Chair of Human Needs and Global Resources and Professor of Environmental Studies at Wheaton College, USA. Professor Yoder's research focuses on human-environment interactions in remote villages and urban centers of Southeast Asia and Latin America. Her ongoing work in Timor-Leste examines the interactions between customary and state authorities regarding land and forest management.

Lisa Palmer is Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Palmer is a human geographer who teaches and researches on human-environment relations and indigenous approaches to environmental and social governance. Her research takes a critical ecological approach and is focused on south-east Asia (particularly Timor-Leste) and Indigenous Australia.

Susanna Barnes is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr Barnes is a social anthropologist who has conducted her main fieldwork in Timor-Leste. Her research interests include the anthropology of island Southeast Asia, customary governance and land tenure, inter-generational well-being and healing, kinship and exchange, colonial and post-colonial history, and international development.

Organização: Grupos de investigação ICS

“Diversidades: Etnografias no mundo contemporâneo” & “Impérios, Colonialismo e Sociedades Pós-Coloniais”

Contacto: Ricardo Roque e Susana Matos Viegas