Oceanic embodiments: living ENSO events in coastal Timor-Leste

Highlights

Extreme weather events reproduce conditions of displacement and colonial violence.

Adaptive practices delineate discontinuities in subsistence resources and inform ways of conceptualising adaptive geographies.

Adaptive practices in adult participant groups evidence a retreat from coastal regions to traditional highland areas.

Youth participants instead envision a more resilient and regenerated coastscape.

Approaches to adaptation across groups inform a decolonial approach to adaptation governance.