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1 Why Nationalism Did Not Emerge Earlier in Timor-Leste: Customary Cultures Confront Globalising Modernism Paul James , Damian Grenfell , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 21 no. 4 2018; (p. 391-413) This article explores Timor-Leste’s long history of colonial encounters with modernity and globalisation. Over a couple of centuries these forces contributed to creating a particular form of customary nationhood that differed from other nations which, on the face it, appear to have parallel histories. More than that, a sense of nationhood came later in Timor-Leste than in most colonial and postcolonial settings. Through an analysis of Timor’s predominantly customary forms of sociality and organisation, this article explores why political nationalism came so late to a territory that like many other colonies had an established generalising cultural identity and was part of a global history of colonisation. Drawing in issues such as Timor’s place in global history, conflict, resistance, Indigenous power, the unevenness of Portuguese colonisation, rejection of the homogenising process and the naming of the Timorese people, it is concluded that the continuing depth of customary-traditional cultures and the nature of the colonial experience cut against the early formation of a sense of nationhood, even as this became one of the strengths in the Timorese fight against colonial oppression. (Source: publisher's abstract).
1 y separately published work icon Local Global Local - Global; Local Global : Identity, Security, Community Paul James (editor), 2005 Melbourne : Globalism Institute, RMIT University , 2005- Z1427611 2005 periodical (1 issues)

'Local - Global is a collaborative international journal concerned with the resilience and difficulties of contemporary social life. It draws together groups of researchers and practitioners located in different communities across the world to critically address issues concerning the relationship between the global and the local'.

Source: Local Global 3 (2007).
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