PART TWO - JOURNEYS

Summary

Through unpacking travel stories and being myself a fellow traveller on voyages, I trace the complexities and diversity of travelling identities of Eastern Indonesian women. Paying attention to the local context of social relations opens a space for articulating the physical as well the metaphorical journeys of crossing the ocean. Individuals inhabited different subject positions in various nodes of relations. Travellers move in and out of a wider range of subject positions allowing new subjectivities to emerge. I ground the empirical evidence of travel on three basic sea routes, namely travel inter-islands, travel to urban centres, and travel to overseas destinations. Travellers' tales provide clues to the creation of contested and liminal spaces where new identities are imagined.