Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira is a heritage and diaspora researcher, and in this podcast she talks to York-based EUTERPE candidate Alice Flinta about what it means to be and grow up as Macanese. Having lived through Macau’s transition period and vividly remembering the handover day, she reflects on identity at the historical and political fringes of Europe, as well as what feelings of belonging are possible when the landscape changes in the blink of an eye and childhood geographies morph.

As the Macanese are the “Sons of the Land” who have been led to redefine their footing time and again beyond their physical territory, we wonder whether belonging, which many populations already experience as fluid, would be better encapsulated by the flowing delta, by the changing courses of waterscapes.

The episode transcript can be accessed here.

Further resources:

Dóci Papiaçám de Macau [The sweet language of Macau]: https://www.youtube.com/c/docipapiacamdimacau

Hespanha, A. M. (2019). Filhos da Terra: Identidades Mestiças nos Confins da Expansão Portuguesa. Tinta da China.

Jorge, C. (2020) Poemas para Macau. Livros do Oriente

Pereira, M. P. L. (forthcoming) "Deltascapes: The Heritage of Macao’s Waterborne Communities amidst the Geoeconomics of the Pearl River Delta". International Journal of Heritage Studies.

About Deolinda da Conceiçāo: https://app.pt/escritora-do-mes-itinerarios-de-pesquisa-deolinda-da-conceicao/

This episode is part of the EUTERPE Podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective.

The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library.

Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project.

For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/, or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project.

This episode was produced and edited by: Alice Flinta.

With thanks to the Creativity Lab and Podcast studio team at the University of York.

Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music.

Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili, Evangeline Scarpulla and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.