Emerging ethnic minority sub-cultures

Significant socio-cultural and political changes have taken place in Sri Lanka since the end of the most recent war in 2009. There is, however, a lack of research on minority youth sub-cultures in Sri Lanka. This paper seeks to fill the gap, describing different elements of Tamil youth sub-cultures and identifying factors which can be used to distinguish them. The research aimed to explore emerging youth sub-cultures, considering Somasundaram's idea of collective trauma and Hall's concept of resistance: which are combined with other broad theoretical conceptualizations and synthesized as resistance, intersectionality and identity, as a lens to understand the sub-cultures among Jaffna post-war youth. Ethnographic approaches are used to understand Tamil youth phenomena, with interviews and focus group discussions among youths and professionals. Seven youth sub-cultures in which war trauma is a predominant factor are identified. The results suggest that in-depth studies of all youth sub-cultures are needed

Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Focus group · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Tamil · Youth culture · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts

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