TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing, hearing and feeling belonging
T2 - The case of east timorese youth
AU - Bexley, Angie
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - This paper explores the politics of belonging for a young generation of East Timorese, known as the Geração Foun (Tetum, young/new generation), illustrated through the eyes of Osme, a youth who is wrestling to find his place in independent East Timor from afar, in Australia. Through a range of bodily engaged phenomena such as singing and performance I came to understand the affective experiences of young Timorese ‘being in the world’ but was challenged in representing these registers of belonging in the conventional ethnographic writing mode. The strength of using an integrated sound–image–text construction is mutually complementary and assists in my quest to convey the sensory and emotional registers of belonging.
AB - This paper explores the politics of belonging for a young generation of East Timorese, known as the Geração Foun (Tetum, young/new generation), illustrated through the eyes of Osme, a youth who is wrestling to find his place in independent East Timor from afar, in Australia. Through a range of bodily engaged phenomena such as singing and performance I came to understand the affective experiences of young Timorese ‘being in the world’ but was challenged in representing these registers of belonging in the conventional ethnographic writing mode. The strength of using an integrated sound–image–text construction is mutually complementary and assists in my quest to convey the sensory and emotional registers of belonging.
KW - Belonging
KW - Cultural production
KW - East Timor
KW - Embodiment
KW - Independence
KW - Rasa
KW - Visual anthropology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962750624&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14442210701654024
DO - 10.1080/14442210701654024
M3 - Article
SN - 1444-2213
VL - 8
SP - 287
EP - 295
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -