TY - JOUR
T1 - Consuming Youth: Timorese in the Resistance Against Indonesian Occupation
AU - Bexley, Angie
AU - Rodrigues Tchailoro, Nuno
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article explores the role played by risk-seeking Timorese youth, known as the New Generation (Geraçao Foun), in the resistance movement against Indonesian occupation (1975-1999). It discusses the capture, regimentation and marginalisation of youthful radicalism by the national resistance movement. The paper looks at these processes of youth revolutionary involvement sympathetically though the memories of former participants in the clandestine struggle and is representative of a new reflexive phase in young Timorese' post-colonial self-realisation. This phase is decidedly non-triumphalist, one which dwells on the inability to be 'recompensed' for the dreams that were captured and lives that were side-tracked in a conflict that consumed youth.
AB - This article explores the role played by risk-seeking Timorese youth, known as the New Generation (Geraçao Foun), in the resistance movement against Indonesian occupation (1975-1999). It discusses the capture, regimentation and marginalisation of youthful radicalism by the national resistance movement. The paper looks at these processes of youth revolutionary involvement sympathetically though the memories of former participants in the clandestine struggle and is representative of a new reflexive phase in young Timorese' post-colonial self-realisation. This phase is decidedly non-triumphalist, one which dwells on the inability to be 'recompensed' for the dreams that were captured and lives that were side-tracked in a conflict that consumed youth.
U2 - 10.1080/14442213.2013.833289
DO - 10.1080/14442213.2013.833289
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 405
EP - 422
JO - The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 5
ER -