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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: sense of viidu
    sub title: the (re)creation of home by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia
  name:
    name part: Kandasamy, Niro
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Perera, Nirukshi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ratnam, Charishma
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia. It explores the theme of home, from what is left behind to what is brought or (re)created in a new space, and all the complex processes that ensue as a result of leaving a land defined by conflict. The context of the book is unique since it focuses on the ten-year period since the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009. Although the war has officially come to an end, conflict continues in diverse and insidious forms, which we present from the point of view of those who have left Sri Lanka. The multidisciplinary nature of the book means that various aspects of Sri Lankan Tamil experiences are documented including trauma, violence, resettlement, political action, cultural and religious heritage and intergenerational transmission. This book draws on qualitative methods from the fields of history, geography, sociology, sociolinguistics, psychology and psychiatry. Methodological enquiries range from oral histories and in-depth interviews to ethnography and self-reflexive accounts. To complement these academic chapters, creative contributions by prominent Sri Lankan artists in Australia seek to provide personalized and alternative interpretations on the theme of home. These include works from playwrights, novelists and community arts practitioners who also identify as human rights activists.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction / Charishma Ratnam -- pt. I The Politics of Home and Belonging -- 2. Movements of Minorities: AusLankan Struggles for Justice / Sumugan Sivanesan -- 3. Lionheart / Gary Paramanathan -- 4. Home, Continuities and Resistance: Memory Activism in the Aftermath of Sri Lanka's Civil War / Niro Kandasamy -- pt. II The Psychological Effects of Remembering Home -- 5. My Life: A Fragile Raft / Paheerathan Pararasasingam -- 6. Tamil Women in the Home Away from Home: The Impact of War Trauma on Psychological Wellbeing / Neeraja Sanmuhanathan -- 7. The Struggle over Memory: The Relational Dimensions of Traumatic Memory in the Lives of Tamil Asylum-Seeking Adolescents / Derrick Silove -- 8. Naren / Shankari Chandran -- pt. III Social and Cultural Experiences of (Re)creating Home -- 9.(Re)creating Home: The Lived and Gendered Experiences of Tamil Women in Sydney, Australia / Charishma Ratnam
  table of contents: Note continued: 10. Tamil Weekends: Intergenerational Perspectives on Belonging / Nirukshi Perera -- 11. Bittersweet / S. Shakthidaran -- 12. Conclusion: (Re)creating Home -- Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future / Charishma Ratnam.
  note: Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera, Charishma Ratnam, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
    geographic code: a-ce---
  subject:
    topic: Tamil (Indic people)
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Sri Lankans
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1983-2009
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  classification: 305.800994
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave pivot
  identifier: 9789811513688
  identifier: 9811513686
  identifier: 9789811513695
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200128
    record change date: 20201020065637.0
    record identifier: in00004169211