Consuming conflict as Tamil consciousness
The case of second-generation British Sri Lankan Tamils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3613372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Ibrahim (0000-0002-2510-6683, corresponding author), Vy Rajapillai, Sasha Scott (European Broadcasting Union, Geneva, Switzerland), Sasha A Q Scott (European Broadcasting Union) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1133-1151 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2021.1940890 |
| OpenAlex | W3175094135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
A long-running conflict is wounding for generations, not only by sustaining an affective sense-making between different geolocations but also by binding diasporic communities through the conflict’s temporality of pain, violence and loss as enduring legacies. Long-running conflicts leave wounds, binding generations through an allotropic process in which the trauma is experienced second-hand and consumed through the circulation of the conflict in a myriad of cultural forms. This paper reveals the findings of a study conducted among second-generation British Sri Lankan youths to understand conflict as a site of constant consumption and domestication, yielding an affective sphere of sense making. In particular, the paper traces how the consumption of conflict is reified and temporally enlarged through the interactions between first and second generations, transnational networks and peers as well as media technologies in mediating Tamil identity and consciousness. This affective sphere induced through second-hand trauma is continuously sustained, renewed and negotiated in lending to the process of identity construction and the moral imagination of a homeland
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Consumption (sociology · Epistemology · Homeland · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tamil · Temporality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture
In My Mother's House
The Make-Believe Space
The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Perpetuation or Resolution
The Discourse of Politics in Action
The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain
Haunting memories
Triumphalism, fear and humiliation
The Case of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora and Homeland
Transnational Tamil television and diasporic imaginings
Accountability and the Sri Lankan Civil War
Writing Sri Lanka
Ending Ethnic Civil War
Ethnonationalist networks and transnational opportunities
When Migrants Travel Back Home
Imperialism, Domination, Culture
Immigrant protests in Toronto
The Generation of Postmemory
Distant warriors, distant peace workers? Multiple diaspora roles in Sri Lanka's violent conflict
Embodied Migration
The Diaspora in Indian Culture
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |