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Engaging Processes of Sense-Making and Negotiation in Contemporary Timor-Leste
The articles in this special issue build on past ethnographic inquiries and focus on
political and social change since Timor-Leste
independence. One of the things we
have found particularly exciting about researching post-independent Timor-Leste has
been to carry out fieldwork in a context where not just researchers, but also our
informants, are caught up in processes of
sense-making of determining what kind
of place Timor-Leste as an independent nation is becoming. The reality of
ethnographic research in such a context is far different from, as Ferguson (1999,
208) has it, the archetypal image of the anthropologist dropped into the middle of a
cultural homogenous village community
where the researcher acquires from local
informants a degree of cultural fluency. Rather, while we as researchers have tried to
learn about Timor-Leste, our informants, as citizens of a new nation, have been
absorbed in a parallel process of learning, deliberating and at times contesting what
kind of place Timor-Leste as an independent nation is, and should become in the
future (see Kammen 2009). In other words, making sense of independent Timor-
Leste has, over the past decade, been a project that preoccupies Timorese citizens as
much as the foreign researcher. This issue addresses some of these processes of
sense-making and negotiation; and highlights the ambiguities and paradoxes, while
stressing the heterogeneity and unpredictability of contemporary Timor-Leste
Strongly extreme points and approximation properties
We show that if is a strongly extreme point of a bounded closed convex
subset of a Banach space and the identity has a geometrically and topologically
good enough local approximation at , then is already a denting point. It
turns out that such an approximation of the identity exists at any strongly
extreme point of the unit ball of a Banach space with the unconditional compact
approximation property. We also prove that every Banach space with a Schauder
basis can be equivalently renormed to satisfy the sufficient conditions
mentioned. In contrast to the above results we also construct a non-symmetric
norm on for which all points on the unit sphere are strongly extreme, but
none of these points are denting.Comment: 14 page
Biomass and abundance of demersal fish stocks off West and East Greenland estimated from the Greenland Institute of Natural resources Shrimp Fish Survey, 1988-2012
Biomass and abundance of demersal fish stocks off West and East Greenland estimated from the Greenland Institute of Natural resources Shrimp Fish Survey, 1988-2013
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