- Title
- 'It was all about independence': loss, division and rejuvenation amongst the East Timorese in Melbourne
- Creator
- Askland, Hedda Haugen
- Relation
- The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol. 25, Issue 3, p. 321-336
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/taja.12107
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- In this article I explore some of the changes that have occurred in the East-Timorese communityin Melbourne following independence. The focus of the paper is on the process of identificationand how there has been a move from a collective identity towards social identity. Through con-temporary anthropological conceptualisations of (collective) identity and Pierre Bourdieu’sconcepts of habitus and social field, I explore how divergence in pre-independence activism hasled to parallel experiences of lost community and renewed feelings of belonging, and how thecommunity is gradually moving from a focus on the homeland towards an emphasis on thecommunity in exile.
- Subject
- East Timor; collective identity; process of identification; habitus; social field; political movement
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1293494
- Identifier
- uon:18612
- Identifier
- ISSN:1035-8811
- Language
- eng
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