Circulating Stories: <scp>E</scp>ast <scp>T</scp>imorese in <scp>A</scp>ustralia and Questions of Post‐Independence Identity

Askland, Hedda Haugen

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“…The subject of a number of sociological and anthropological studies (e.g. Wise 2004Wise , 2006Askland 2007Askland , 2014Costa-Pinto 2012), the East Timorese Australian experience has not yet been investigated from a sociolinguistic perspective. The East Timorese in Australia are of particular interest to sociolinguists because of: (a) the unusually complex linguistic situation in East Timor; (b) the complicated nature of their arrival in Australia; and (c) the ongoing close relationship the Timorese in the diaspora have always maintained with East Timor.…”

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The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora

Hajek

Goglia

2019

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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The version presented here may differ from the published version. If citing, you are advised to consult the published version for pagination, volume/issue and date of publication 1The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora This article explores language repertoires, attitudes, and practices amongst members of the East Timorese diaspora in Australia. It relies on quantitative and qualitative data gathered through a recent sociolinguistic survey, ethnographic observation, as well as on general observations of online language use. Our study reveals a complex and variable multilingualism that reflects in the first instance specific sociolinguistic conditions and changing language policies in East Timor, leading to a reshaping of language repertoires over generations in that country.Participants, mostly raised in East Timor, are more multilingual than their parents, but their children raised in Australia show signs of shift to English, as well as evidence of reduced multilingualism. An increasing emphasis on English is coupled with a rise in the importance assigned, more generally, to Tetum amongst most East Timorese at the expense of Portuguese and other languages.Tetum is most strongly linked to East Timorese identity whilst Portuguese and other languages show signs of restricted use and status, if not decline, in the Australian context. At the same time, the Hakka Chinese sub-group of East Timorese maintain in Australia, as in East Timor, a different linguistic patterning coupled with a strong sense of their own ethnic and linguistic identity.

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The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora

Hajek

Goglia

2019

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…Witnessing is an important factor in the development of knowledge (Askland 2014) in that it can transform theoretical information into empirical 'facts'. In this way, knowledge is validated by experience.…”

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“…During her interview, Hazel retold this story and reflected on her friends' accountan example of how one's experience, when told to others, can circulate amongst networks of personal relationships, becoming important forms of collective knowledge (Askland 2014):…”

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Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW

Threadgold

Farrugia

Askland

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Environmental Sociology

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As conflicts emerge over land use when extractive industries arrive, what counts as legitimate knowledge about the risks generated by these developments becomes important to how individuals formulate their opinions. This article analyses knowledge, risk and perceptions of future land use in the Narrabri Shire, a rural area in Australia. In a risk society, especially a 'post-truth' one, the production of knowledge, whether scientific, political, media or commercially driven, does not provide more security and certainty, but more insecurity and uncertainty. This article uses Bourdieusian concepts informed with theoretical insights about affect and emotion to understand how reflexivity about risks and environmental politics are interpreted. Land use practices are emotional for some local farmers, where their 'sense of one's place' is structured by their deep connection with the land and is therefore structuring of their land use politics. For others, their response may be couched as more economically 'rational', but this also expresses an emotional position in an affective economy that destabilises traditional economic understandings of rational/emotional dichotomies. Affect and illusio can contribute to understanding the colour and intensity of the positions occupied in response to land use disputes.

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Displacement as Condition: A Refugee, a Farmer and the Teleology of Life

Ramsay

Askland

2020

Ethnos

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Circulating Stories: East Timorese in Australia and Questions of Post‐Independence Identity

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Cited by 7 publications

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The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora

The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora

Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW

Displacement as Condition: A Refugee, a Farmer and the Teleology of Life

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