Part I: Looking at the future through the past

Progress and propaganda in Timor-Leste: Visions of the future in comparative historical perspective

The Timor Oil Company's network, 1956–1968: Interacting internal and external infrastructures

Part II: State visions of development

Political and economic challenges of petroleum dependency in Timor-Leste

Piloting the experimental ZEESM megaproject: Performing the future in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave

Expropriation or plunder? Property rights and infrastructure development in Oecusse

Just a dream? The struggle for national resource sovereignty and oil infrastructure development along Timor-Leste’s south coast

Reconsidering reintegration: Veterans’ benefits as state-building

Part III: Alternative moral economies of prosperity

Expressions of the 'good life’ and visions of the future: Reflections from Dili and Uatolari

Looking back into the future: Temporalities of hope among the Fataluku (Lautém)

Negotiating ‘darkness’ and ‘light’: Meshworks of fluidity and fire in Baucau

Misreading the night: The shadows and light of a solar technology

Christianity and kultura: Visions and pastoral projects