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Exile and Return Among the East Timorese /
East Timor, the world's newest nation, finally gained its independence in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral in advancing East Timor&...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Contemporary Ethnography
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: "We can't hang Xanana there!" On the Politics of Representing Community
- Chapter 1 East Timor: A History of the Present
- Chapter 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney
- Chapter 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism
- Chapter 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile
- Chapter 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed
- Chapter 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future
- Afterword: January 2005
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments