RT Article
T1 ‘It was all about independence’: loss, division and rejuvenation amongst the East Timorese in Melbourne
JF The Australian journal of anthropology
VO 25
IS 3
SP 321
OP 336
A1 Askland, Hedda Haugen
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1937586367
AB In this article I explore some of the changes that have occurred in the East-Timorese community in Melbourne following independence. The focus of the paper is on the process of identification and how there has been a move from a collective identity towards social identity. Through contemporary anthropological conceptualisations of (collective) identity and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and social field, I explore how divergence in pre-independence activism has led to parallel experiences of lost community and renewed feelings of belonging, and how the community is gradually moving from a focus on the homeland towards an emphasis on the community in exile.
K1 Habitus
K1 political movement
K1 social field
K1 process of identification
K1 Collective identity
K1 East Timor
DO 10.1111/taja.12107