Surveying East Timorese tertiary student attitudes to national identity, 2002-2010

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Title: Surveying East Timorese tertiary student attitudes to national identity, 2002-2010
Author(s): Leach, Michael
Abstract: This paper was presented in the panel 'Pacific nations? Understanding attitudes to national identity in Melanesia and Timor-Leste'. The three papers in this panel present the preliminary findings of a new survey of attitudes to national identity among tertiary students in Solomon Islands, PNG, and Timor-Leste. The findings cast new light on the attitudes of potential future elites towards regional, ethnic, intergenerational and linguistic faultlines in the region, and the challenges of building a cohesive sense of political community and national identity.
Publication type: Seminar, speech or other presentation
Source: Paper presented at 'Oceanic Transformations', the 3rd Conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 08-11 April 2010
Publication year: 2010
Keyword(s): Attitudes; East Timor; National identity; Students
Publisher: Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies
Publisher URL: http://www.aaaps.edu.au/