著者

Michael Leach マイケル リーチ

出版者

国立民族学博物館

雑誌

国立民族学博物館研究報告 = Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (ISSN:0385180X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.3, pp.283-300, 2019-01-25

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This chapter examines some the evolving characteristics of East Timoresenationalism. It starts by examining the distinctive features of East Timoresenationalism, including its rapid transition from a conventional anti-colonialistnarrative, mobilised against Portuguese colonialism, to one contestingIndonesia’s looming forced integration of the decolonising territory in1975; and the way in which the East Timorese resistance employed ideas ofan inner ‘spiritual domain’ (Chatterjee 1993) of identity. It then focusses onmore recent shifts in ‘official’ East Timorese nationalism, in the way governmentdiscourses have invoked the arrival of Catholicism as the‘affirmation of Timorese identity’ (RDTL 2015a) and developed a modernnationalist narrative that partly reflects traditional ‘origin stories’. In thisvein, it discusses recent government attempts to transform a national identityfocussed on the history of the resistance to one mobilised around thegoals of national development. Finally, it speculates on the future of EastTimorese nationalism, reflecting on the implications of the ‘youth bulge’ inEast Timorese society.