How Timor-Leste Infllulenced my Academic Career (original) (raw)
Response to two presentations at the Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference of 2013 by Dr Clinton Fernandes and Dr Michael Leach at a 'Festscrift' session on my work, in particular my 1978 MA thesis on the independence movement FRETILIN in Portuguese Timor. M
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Movimentu Kultura: Making Timor-Leste
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste, 2019
The contribution of contemporary art practices for Timor-Leste’s national building is highly significant. Especially since the restoration of independence in 2002, both the authorities and the population have been promoting the consolidation of national identity. The change of political landscape has provided the artistic community with a valuable opportunity to identify and propose values, trends, and community symbols of the new nation. Artists have successfully forged a space of artistic and political intervention, but their input has largely been segregated from broader nation-building efforts that characterize those promoted by the official authorities. This ghettoization has enabled artists to maintain a free discourse, imbued with notions of the avant-garde. Yet, their critical messages have not reached local authorities. Instead, their impact remained mostly confined to the attention granted by the international community residing in the country as well as the artist community itself.
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