Southeast Asian cultural landscape, resistance, and belonging in East Timor's FRETILIN Movement (1974–75)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Kisho Tsuchiya
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Landscape Resistance ◽  
Fault Line ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Sacred Landscapes ◽  
Resistance Movement

The diversity of national imaginings within the East Timorese resistance movement against the Indonesian Occupation (1975–99) became visible through the country's post-independence politics. Namely, the contradiction between the returnee leaders and those who fought in East Timor over the representation of FRETILIN (the major nationalist movement since 1974) has been an important fault line. This article attempts to understand this discrepancy through a comparison of FRETILIN's campaigns in Tetun and Portuguese and how different audiences interpreted them. The article argues that FRETILIN modified its international rhetoric when it became a popular Tetun language movement to attract Timorese commoners. The Tetun version of FRETILIN provided sources for Timorese national imaginings based on local beliefs, sacred landscapes, and Southeast Asian social relations that deviated from how international audiences understood FRETILIN. This article thus contributes to the literature on Southeast Asian resistance and nationalism by revealing Timorese ideologies of resistance and nationhood.

Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movement, edited by Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 658-660
Author(s):  
Sophie Quinn-Judge
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Nationalist Movement

The Emergence of a Nationalist Movement in East Timor

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
John G. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
East Timor ◽  
Nationalist Movement

Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Rush
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
World Region

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations—Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor—are each unique, yet shared traditions mean that each country is also typically Southeast Asian. Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction traces the region’s history from the earliest “mandala” kingdoms to the colonial era and the present day. Synthesizing the ideas of leading scholars, it provides an analysis of contemporary Southeast Asia that accommodates its bewildering ethnic, religious, and political complexities while exposing the underlying patterns that make it a unified world region.

Southeast Asian Trajectories of Labour Mobility: Precarity, Translocality, and Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Tappe ◽  
Minh T.N. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Citizenship Regimes

AbstractWithin and across Southeast Asian national borders, there has been a growing circulation of labour, capital, people, and goods. Meanwhile, urbanisation, agrarian changes, and liberal economic restructuring have been drawing a large section of the rural population into mobile economies and trade networks. This special issue explores the linkage between mobility and the growing precaritisation of labour resulting from neoliberalised development policies, nationalist citizenship regimes, and discourses, and arbitrary state power. Arguably, the consequent insecurity and uncertainty have profound implications for the social and economic life of migrant labourers. Although these conditions engender dangers and risks, they also hold possibilities for crafting translocal livelihoods and social relations. In this introduction, we investigate the diverse trajectories of labour migration in Southeast Asia through a critical discussion on the concept of ‘precarity’ that underscores the resilience of labour migrants despite the precarious conditions of their lives. The special issue suggests that, while precarious labour has long been part of regimes of control and exploitation in the region, precarity today is shaped by the blurry boundaries between the legal and the illegal, between local and global lives, and between different worlds of belonging.

Schooling Diaspora

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Male Discourse ◽  
Chinese Girls

Schooling Diaspora relates the previously untold story of female education and the overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, traversing more than a century of British imperialism, Chinese migration, and Southeast Asian nationalism. This book explores the pioneering English- and Chinese-language girls’ schools in which these women studied and worked, drawing from school records, missionary annals, colonial reports, periodicals, and oral interviews. The history of educated overseas Chinese girls and women reveals the surprising reach of transnational female affiliations and activities in an age and a community that most accounts have cast as male dominated. These women created and joined networks in schools, workplaces, associations, and politics. They influenced notions of labor and social relations in Asian and European societies. They were at the center of political debates over language and ethnicity and were vital actors in struggles over twentieth-century national belonging. Their education empowered them to defy certain sociocultural conventions in ways that school founders and political authorities did not anticipate. At the same time, they contended with an elite male discourse that perpetuated patriarchal views of gender, culture, and nation. Even as their schooling propelled them into a cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic public space, Chinese girls and women in diaspora often had to take sides as Malayan and Singaporean society became polarized—sometimes falsely—into mutually exclusive groups of British loyalists, pro-China nationalists, and Southeast Asian citizens. They negotiated these constraints to build unique identities, ultimately contributing to the development of a new figure: the educated transnational Chinese woman.

East Timor´s Future: Southeast Asian or South Pacific?$^{1}$

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Hal Hill
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
East Timor

scholarly journals Changing livelihoods and language repertoires: hunting, fishing and gold mining in the southeast Peruvian Amazon

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (246) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Aikman
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Hunting And Fishing

AbstractThis article investigates how over the space of three decades the language repertoires of the Arakmbut people of the southeast Peruvian Amazon have shifted from being predominantly Harakmbut language based to Spanish language based. It asks not how one language has come to replace another in the daily lives of the Arakmbut, but what this shift represents in terms of changing lifestyles, social relations, desirable affiliations and the changing value Harakmbut and Spanish language resources have for them in furthering these relationships. Drawing on long term ethnographic research, it presents four scenarios over this period through which the changes in Arakmbut livelihoods from hunting and fishing to gold mining are discussed and what these changes mean in terms of their social, cultural and spiritual relationships with their territory. As their livelihoods have become more entwined with the gold economy and new national alliances and international networks, they have sought to reshape their communicative repertoires to respond to and ensure their continuing access to resources for their health and stability as a community in an intense and fast moving social, economic and cultural landscape.

Good Guys, Bad Guys: Images of the Australian Soldier in East Timor

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Denise Woods
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Press ◽  
Neighbouring Country ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

It is said that pictures tell a thousand words, but to Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir, the images of Australian soldiers pointing guns at suspected militiamen in East Timor made one word stand out: ‘belligerent’. Images that meant one thing in Australia represented quite different and often opposite meanings in Southeast Asia. In the Australian press, the Australian soldiers were constructed as ‘the good guys’ helping out a neighbouring country in trouble. The press in some Southeast Asian countries told quite a different story — that of the Australian soldiers as intimidating and therefore the ‘bad guys’ of the region. Through a textual analysis of these images, this paper examines the ways in which the Australian soldiers have been represented in the press in Southeast Asia. This paper also discusses the role the reading of these images played in negotiating Australia's role in East Timor and the region.

scholarly journals Visual Culture in Prehistoric South-east Italy

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Robin Skeates
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Cultures ◽  
The Bronze Age

Using the approach of visual culture, which highlights the embeddedness of art in dynamic human processes, this paper examines the prehistoric archaeology of the Lecce province in south-east Italy, in order to provide a history of successive visual cultures in that area, between the Middle Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. It is argued that art may have helped human groups to deal with problems in subsistence and society, including environmental changes affecting the cultural landscape and its resources, the breaking up of old social relations and the establishment and maintenance of new ones. More specifically, art appears to have become increasingly related to the expression of religious and even mythical beliefs, and in particular to the performance of ceremonies and rituals in selected spaces such as caves. This may reflect the existence of a long-term tradition of performance art in prehistory, involving performers and viewers, in which art helped to structure and heighten the sensual and social impact of the acting human body.

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