Homeland, territory, property: contesting land, state, and nation in urban Timor-Leste Stead, Victoria 2015, Homeland, territory, property: contesting land, state, and nation in urban Timor-Leste, Political geography, vol. 45, pp. 79-89, doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.05.002. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Homeland, territory, property: contesting land, state, and nation in urban Timor-Leste Author(s) Stead, Victoria Journal name Political geography Volume number 45 Start page 79 End page 89 Total pages 11 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2015-03 ISSN 0962-6298 Keyword(s) Land Nation-building Right to the city Squatter settlement State-building Timor-Leste Social Sciences Geography Political Science Government & Law EAST-TIMOR FORCED EVICTIONS CITY COMMUNITY CITIES DELHI POOR Summary This article considers contestations over land, state and nation in Aitarak Laran, an urban settlement in post-independence Timor-Leste. Since 2010 the settlement has been resisting eviction by the East Timorese state, which wishes to use the land it occupies to build a National Library and Cultural Centre. In exploring the contestation, the purpose of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it explores the nature of social connection to land within postcolonial state- and nation-building. Here, the contestation at Aitarak Laran reveals counter-posed imaginings of land as homeland, territory and property. Secondly, the article draws out the implications of these counter-posed imaginings for thinking about the 'right to the city', a notion first theorised by Lefebvre (1996 [1968]) and subsequently developed to encompass a range of modes of urban protest. In the settlement, the promises of independence-unity, equivalence, and inclusion within the sovereign nation-state-are at odds with residents' experiences of what independence has in fact brought. Land, in its multiple imaginings, becomes a crucible upon which this painful disjuncture plays out. Reading Aitarak Laran as an instance of 'right to the city' struggle, these tensions emerge as well not only in practice but also in theory, reflected particularly in the limitations and ambiguities of rights discourse. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.05.002 Field of Research 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified 160514 Urban Policy 1604 Human Geography 1606 Political Science 1605 Policy And Administration Socio Economic Objective 940201 Civics and Citizenship HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2014, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30067757 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Alfred Deakin Research Institute 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 25 Nov 2014, 14:20:07 EST Mon, 02 Feb 2015, 12:40:13 EST Mon, 02 Feb 2015, 13:02:46 EST Mon, 02 Feb 2015, 13:17:55 EST Mon, 23 Mar 2015, 14:30:17 EST Tue, 11 Jul 2017, 05:00:06 EST Tue, 11 Jul 2017, 06:09:07 EST Sat, 15 Jul 2017, 02:30:04 EST Wed, 19 Jul 2017, 09:33:01 EST Fri, 09 Mar 2018, 12:56:29 EST Fri, 09 Mar 2018, 14:59:25 EST Fri, 09 Mar 2018, 15:01:12 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 77 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 02 Feb 2015, 12:40:13 EST

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