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‘ La iha fiar, la iha seguransa ’: the spiritual landscape and feeling secure in Timor-Leste

2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/23802014.2017.1320200

2380-2014

Bronwyn Winch,

Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

While the spiritual landscape in Timor-Leste has been widely acknowledged and documented, its security dimensions remain relatively unexplored and under-theorised. This article argues that there are many different dimensions of security, and that a more holistic acknowledgement of the beliefs and practices which constitute a prominent basis for the ways that people engage with and understand the world is required. Building on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2016, this article examines how, in Timor-Leste, engagement with the spiritual landscape informs to a significant extent how people experience, understand and produce security, in ways that state-based security provision often cannot.