Caught In-Between
Diversifying Tamil Women's Voices From the Sri Lankan Civil War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2409100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Michael (0000-0001-5859-1198) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-203 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/15327086211050334 |
| OpenAlex | W3206476595 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This is an autoethnographic invitation to make space for different standpoints of women caught in war. This multi-genre project reflects on the standpoint of the author's family as a female-led, female-only household in the capital of Sri Lanka amid the civil war. Grounded on the concept of ethnicity without groups and feminist standpoint theory, this piece adds to the often-homogenized voices of Tamil women. Using integrated crystallization to challenge the dichotomy of art and science, this layered piece weaves together storytelling and theory-based critique to open conversations about wholesome representation. The stories reveal the multichrome nature of ethnicities that often get painted as monochromes. The analyses highlight the intersectionality of women's position and sound the alarm for possible marginalization within the marginalized through a unidimensional expression. The author invites more voices to diversify the standpoints of women caught in the Sri Lankan civil war and contribute to a more comprehensive reality of their experiences
Art · Ethnic group · Intersectionality · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · South asia · Spanish Civil War · Sri lanka · Storytelling · Tamil · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law
Patriarchal Ideology and Wife Beating
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Peace, justice and disabled women’s advocacy
War and disaster in Sri Lanka
Gendered practices in institutions of hegemonic masculinity
The committed female fighter
Cogs in the wheel? Women in the liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam
Mundane heroines
What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations
What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach
The Place of Standpoint Theory in Feminist Science Studies
Reexamining What We Think We Know
Where Standpoint Stands Now
Between Stories and Theories
Racialized Casteism
Remnants of a Checkered Past
Passing, Posing, and “Keeping it Real
Towards an Australian Indigenous Women's Standpoint Theory
On the battlefield of women's bodies
Marriage with the Proper Stranger
Analytic Autoethnography
The Impact of War on Women
| Highly cited | No |
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