Search results for "Tamil"
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Cuando la violencia genera identidad. La guerra en Sri Lanka y la diáspora tamil en Sicilia
2011
Sri Lanka, durante las dos últimas décadas, fue el escenario de una prolongada guerra civil entre la mayoría cingalesa budista y la minoría tamil hindú, que ha defendido su independencia. La primera parte de este artículo muestra que no fueron las diferencias de origen étnico-cultural las que llevaron a la guerra, sino las razones políticas y económicas. La guerra civil ha llevado a una radicalización y cristalización de las diferencias étnicas a través de la manipulación del pasado y del papel político del budismo. La guerra provocó la diáspora tamil en todo el mundo, incluyendo también Sicilia. En la segunda parte del artículo, se presentan algunos puntos del trabajo de campo realizado co…
Animacy-based predictions in language comprehension are robust: contextual cues modulate but do not nullify them
2015
Couldn't a humble coconut hurt a gardener? At least in the first instance, the brain seems to assume that it should not: we perceive inanimate entities such as coconuts as poor event instigators ("Actors"). Ideally, entities causing a change in another entity should be animate and this assumption not only influences event perception but also carries over to language comprehension. We present three auditory event-related brain potential (ERP) studies on the processing of inanimate and animate subjects and objects in simple transitive sentences in Tamil. ERP responses were measured at the second argument (event participant) in all three studies. Experiment 1 employed all possible animacy comb…
Competing economies of worth in a multiagency music and reconciliation partnership: The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009-2018)
2020
The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009–2018) was launched to ‘stimulate the performing arts in Sri Lanka, thus contributing to the peace and reconciliation process’ in the aftermath of almost three decades of civil war between the Tamil minority and Sinhala majority populations of the island. Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project had many local and international stakeholders, from artists and civil society organisations, to government institutions, to a general public eager for enrichment through arts and culture. But despite high engagement and financial investment, the achievements of the SLNMC were generally unremarkable and short-term. This article argue…
A Psychological Confrontation of Adolescents on Mass Media and Religious Practices, in Tamil Nadu, South India
2015
Abstract India is an ancient, multi-cultural-religious country. The younger generations are much influenced by Mass Media in their expression of freedom, morality and religious practices, posing a challenge to combat. The question is: whether mass media always takes the Adolescents away from religious practices or does it contribute for its betterment? Hence, we intend to verify “the Psychological confrontation of the Adolescents of Tamil Nadu on mass media and religious practices” From the results of the data analysis we are given to know that the Adolescents in Tamil Nadu counterpoise European and American Experiments in the use of Mass Media.
“Doing-ethnicity” – Tamil educational organizations as socio-cultural and political actors
2015
The article focuses on Tamil schools abroad that are part of the Tamil Education Development Council (TEDC), and on their construction of ethno-national belongings. By presenting the TEDC geographical, contextual and organizational structures, the article explains how education organizations form a transnational space where the organizations reinforce and recreate ethno-national orientations and belongings, which in turn reconstructs the Tamil diaspora itself through processes of standardization and homogenization.
L'identità diasporica. Pratiche transnazionali e dinamiche interculturali.
2014
La comunità tamil di Palermo. Socializzazione politica delle “seconde generazioni”
2023
Il volume presenta i risultati di una ricerca esplorativa sulla socializzazione politica e i processi di costruzione identitaria delle seconde generazioni della comunità tamil di Palermo. Venti interviste biografiche (analizzate con il supporto del software T-LAB) ne ripercorrono le relazioni sociali in ambito familiare, scolastico, religioso, lavorativo, mediatico e associativo; i legami con lo Sri Lanka, con la comunità diasporica e con la città di Palermo. Tra gli intervistati e le intervistate, la lotta per mantenere viva la memoria collettiva e per il riconoscimento internazionale delle atrocità del passato, si intreccia con questioni politiche nuove che riguardano la cittadinanza e i …
The Socio-Psychological confrontation of the Adolescents on the Impact of the Family towards Religious Practices in Tamil Culture, South India, Compa…
Summary: The psychological conflict faced by the Adolescents in confronting Family and religious practices and individual autonomy is a complex issue. This reality exists in all social contexts. One of such ancient context is called Tamil Culture, in the southern part of India. Our research is focused on Adolescents of this ancient Tamil Cultural Context. Thus the aim of this thesis is to understand the psyche of the Adolescents of Tamil culture, in South India, comparing with Tamil immigrants from Sri Lanka living in Palermo, South Italy. We verify 3 hypotheses with the help of 4 tools, gathering data from 225 adolescents from Rural, Urban and Immigrant situation. We base this study on (i)…
La diaspora interculturale. Analisi etnopedagogica del contatto tra culture: i Tamil in Italia
2007
Matkalla paratiisiin : itsemurhaterrorismin leviäminen globaaliksi taktiikaksi
2012
Ensimmäinen moderni terroristinen itsemurhaisku tapahtui Libanonissa vuonna 1981. Iskua seuranneina vuosikymmeninä itsemurhaiskut ovat levinneet lukuisten eri terroristijärjestöjen käyttöön useille eri maantieteellisille alueille. Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa keskityn itsemurhaiskuihin ja tämän iskutaktiikan leviämiseen eri terroristiryhmien välillä. Tutkimus kartoittaa samalla eri terroristiryhmien välisiä verkostoja. Tutkimuksen tapausesimerkeiksi valikoitui kolme terroristijärjestöä: libanonilainen Hizbollah, srilankalainen Tamilitiikerit sekä palestiinalaisjärjestöt Hamas ja Palestiinan islamilainen jihad. Maantieteellisesti tutkimus keskittyy siis Libanoniin, Sri Lankaan sekä Israelii…