Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Victoria Kumala Sakti is a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the Ageing in a Time of Mobility research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Studies of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on ageing and displacement in the Global South, care, border practices, legacies of violence and repair, memory, emotions and belonging. She has conducted her primary fieldwork in Timor-Leste and Indonesia and, more recently, among Southeast Asian diasporas in Europe. She is the co-editor (with M. Amrith and D. Sampaio) of the volume Aspiring in Later Life: Movements Across Time, Space, and Generations (Rutgers University Press, 2023) and a special issue on the extended temporalities of forced migration for the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
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Marginalized Tribal and other "Minority" Communities: Conflict and Resistance III
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Aspiring from the Margins: Ageing, Care, and Borders among the East Timorese in West Timor
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)