Refugee Legacies, Media Objects, and Collective Memory: Evolutions of Diasporic Consciousness Among Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada- [electronic resource]
Refugee Legacies, Media Objects, and Collective Memory: Evolutions of Diasporic Consciousness Among Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101653
- ISBN
- 9798380368971
- DDC
- 305
- 서명/저자
- Refugee Legacies, Media Objects, and Collective Memory: Evolutions of Diasporic Consciousness Among Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of California, Berkeley., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(202 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Siu, Lok;Um, Khatharya.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Since the 1980s, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict has caused the mass migration of over a million ethnic Tamils from their homeland, creating a transnationally interconnected Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora deeply engaged in homeland politics. This study focuses on the Tamil-Canadian diaspora, the largest Sri Lankan Tamil community outside of Sri Lanka. It seeks to explore the way particular histories of war, refugee migration, and a sustained relationship with media technologies and objects have shaped the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora's collective memory and diasporic consciousness. Through paying particular attention to second-generation Tamil-Canadians, this study investigates how this generation interacts with, are influenced by, and ultimately tries to contribute to this community's evolving diasporic consciousness.Building an interdisciplinary methodology, this study blends together digital ethnography, participant observation, media and visual culture analysis, as well as in-depth interviews to consider various interrelated questions about the forces that shape the identity, collective memory, and political subjectivities of this diasporic community. This study argues that it is useful to approach this community and others like it through the framework of what it means to study a refugee diaspora. The refugee diaspora framework asks us to consider how diasporic communities that migrate to escape war are wholly shaped by the particular conditions of their violent dispersal and the continuities that stem from it. These continuities extend far beyond the legal term, 'refugee' and have lasting effects on the diasporic imaginings of future generations. This study also argues that the collective memory of this transnational diaspora is one that is maintained by both politicized narratives forwarded by community organizations and more amorphous and embodied memories and traumas carried by individuals and families. This collective memory is then continually mediated through what this study calls a visual landscape of identity, which is made up of the media technologies, media objects, local realities, imagined homelands, and inherited traumas that the Tamil-Canadian diaspora engages with. Finally, this study argues that in their place-making projects, the second-generation of this diaspora is learning how to contribute to an evolving sense of diasporic consciousness through integrating their unique experiences, perspectives, and political subjectivities into the tapestry of Tamil identity woven by the generations before them.
- 일반주제명
- Asian American studies.
- 일반주제명
- Canadian studies.
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies.
- 일반주제명
- Ethnic studies.
- 키워드
- Diaspora
- 키워드
- Media
- 키워드
- Refugees
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Ethnic Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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