Resistance in the Postcolonial world #3
Third presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGf-TskLabM
Imperialism, Self-Determination and human development #2
Second presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYOfcPeeNY
Overview: Self Determination in the Post Colonial World #1
First presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vv1JPmCcFY
Partnerships for self-determination: The Cuba-Timor health cooperation (2018)
This paper uses the Cuban Timor Leste health partnership to illustrate desirable principles in aid partnerships. For all its problems, Timor Leste has graduated one thousand doctors in the past decade, created clinics in all rural districts and has seen substantial […]
Aid: Is it worth it? (2012)
Aid worldwide runs at more than $120 billion per year (World Bank 2011a), yet there is very little correlation between this expenditure and the often stated goal of poverty reduction. The failures of aid are legion. Yet this ‘development assistance’ […]
RAMSI: Intervention, aid trauma and self governance (2008)
The Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was an intervention force requested by the Solomon Islands Government to help stabilise the country after a period of civil strife. It became an experiment in ‘cooperative intervention’ – at a time of […]
Australia’s regional interventions: The antinomies of ‘good governance’ (2007)
This paper examines the antinomies of Australian ‘good governance’: the logical nonsense of regional coerced democracy and carefully tutored economic ‘best practice’. The tension between intervention and independence in the region – particularly with respect to the recent experience of Papua […]
Land rights and Aboriginal voices (Gary Foley and Tim Anderson, 2006)
This article explains Australian Aboriginal land rights as the just claim of a long historical movement, driven by Aboriginal voices of resistance to dispossession. The land rights movement – demanding the return of land stolen from Aboriginal communities, or compensation […]
Independent development in East Timor? (2005)
Independent development is possible, but difficult, in a small country like Timor-Leste. It requires solidarity and independent thinking. Yet independent thinking is constantly under threat from what might be called the ‘Anglo economic technocracy’, a mindset which stresses privatisation, uncoordinated […]
Self-determination after Independence: East Timor and the World Bank (2003)
This paper introduces the concept of self-determination in the East Timorese struggle for political independence, and then examines the question of economic self-determination, with special focus on the role of the World Bank in East Timor The paper discusses the […]