Anticipating prosperity: A study of community expectations and the petroleum industry in Timor-Leste 2015-2017

This includes ethnographic data from participant observation carried out in Timor-Leste between 2015 and 2017, shown as draft ethnographic narratives, fieldnotes developed in ethnographic form, and undeveloped fieldnotes. The fieldnotes cover general information on the oil and gas infrastructure project and research carried out in the capital city Dili, as well as ethnographic data from ‘affected communities’ in Suai, Betano and Beaco. The descriptions include different ideas about the significance of the environment and how communities relate to the landscape they inhabit. It also contains descriptions of historical forms of oil exploration along the south coast and descriptions of community consultations that took place along the south coast.