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Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the ideas of belonging and citizenship among former pro-autonomy East Timorese who have elected to settle indefinitely in West Timor. The study follows different East Timorese groups and examines various ways they construct and negotiate their socio-political identities following the violent and destructive separation from their homeland. The East Timorese might have had Indonesia as their destination when they left the eastern half of the island in the aftermath of the referendum, but they have not relinquished their cultural identities as East Timorese. The study highlights the significance of the notions of origin, ancestry and alliance in our understanding of East Timorese place-making and belonging to a particular locality. Another feature of belonging that informs East Timorese identity is their narrative of sacrifice to maintain connections with their homeland and move on with their lives in Indonesia. These sacrificial narratives elaborate an East Timorese spirit of struggle and resilience, a feature further exemplified in the transformation of their political activities within the Indonesian political system.

Political refugees --- Timor-Leste --- Politics and government. --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- East Timor --- cultural identity --- ethnography --- Indonesia

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Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Arnout Van der Meer's Performing Power explores what seemingly ordinary interactions reveal about the construction of national, racial, social, religious, and gender identities as well as the experience of modernity in colonial Indonesia. Through acts of everyday resistance, such as speaking a different language, withholding deference, and changing one's appearance and consumer behavior, a new generation of Indonesians contested the hegemonic colonial appropriation of local culture and the racial and gender inequalities that it sustained. Over time these relationships of domination and subordination became inverted, and by the twentieth century the Javanese used the tropes of Dutch colonial behavior to subvert the administrative hierarchy of the state. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Group identity. --- Cultural Studies. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies

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Individual and Groups Rights --- Family and Culture --- Education --- Cultural life --- Cultural identity --- Northwest Power and Conservation Council (U.S.) --- Mexico --- United States

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Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat.

National characteristics, English --- Group identity --- Nationalism and literature --- English language --- History --- Rhetoric --- Political aspects. --- Germanic languages --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- English national characteristics --- European history

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Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an “other” which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions in this volume analyze characteristics and strategies of European and non-European identity discourses. Der Begriff, die Funktion und die Relevanz von ‚Identität‘ werden in unterschiedlichen geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sehr kontrovers diskutiert. Der vorliegende Band befördert den inter- und transdisziplinären Dialog, indem er Beiträge aus der Anglistik, Ethnologie, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Psychologie, Slavistik und Islamwissenschaft versammelt. Sie analysieren Merkmale und Strategien inner- und außereuropäischer Identitätsdiskurse – nationale, regionale, lokale, religiöse, sprachliche – und widmen sich Themen wie der Bildung „verspäteter Nationen“ (Deutschland, Italien, Ukraine), Konflikten zwischen kulturellen und nationalen Identitätskonzepten, der Abgrenzung von einem als Alterität markierten ‚Anderen‘, Strategien der Etablierung und Kritik von Identitätsdiskursen in Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur und Medien sowie der Funktionalisierung von Ursprungsmythen in den imagined communities nationalistischer Ideologien.

Group identity. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Europe --- Civilization --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- European identity --- nation building --- concepts of identity