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Terrorismo o resistenza? Il processo di Napoli
2014
Il saggia indaga il sottile confine tra le fattispecie "terrorismo" e "lotta di liberazione" attraverso le norme di diritto internazionale umanitario, il concetto di "diritto penale del nemico" e analizzando il caso di un processo per terrorismo a carico di un gruppo di tamil residenti in Italia.
Intercultural Education in the European Union: Ideas from an Ethno-pedagogical Study on Tamil Migrants in Palermo
2013
Mass Media And Religious Practices In The Immigrant Situation: A Challenging Developmental Psychology Encountered By The Sri Lankan Tamil Adolescents…
2015
Mass Media and Religious Practices in the immigrant situation is a challenging Developmental Psychology, encountered by the Sri Lankan Tamil Adolescents living in Palermo, South Italy. Adolescents in the modern world face a lot of challenges in the process of their growth. One of such challenges is that of the social impact of Mass Media, which manipulates and determines the individual’s decisive moments of growth. They are left with no choice but confront Mass media and personal choice of religious attitudes, and religious practices, (Cohen 2010; Kukreja 2010). The attitudes and belief-systems are built and sustained by the social structure. (Cooper and Denner 1998). In this article we adm…
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…
Imagining the other : orientalism and occidentalism in Tamil-European relations in South India
2006
Jouhki on tutkinut idän ja lännen problematiikkaa Edward Saidin (1935–2003) vuonna 1978 kirjoittaman teoksen Orientalism - Western Conceptions of the Other ja sitä seuranneen mittavan akateemisen keskustelun pohjalta. Jouhki on myös kerännyt kenttätyöaineistoa tamileiden ja eurooppalaisten suhteesta Etelä-Intiassa.Kirjassaan Edward Said hyökkäsi euroamerikkalaisen kulttuurin luutuneita käsityksiä vastaan ja väitti, että itää koskevaa diskurssia hallitsee yhä kolonialismin eurosentrinen perintö. Euroopan ulkopuolisiin kansoihin suhtaudutaan ennakkoluuloisesti ja polarisoivasti, ikään kuin idän ja lännen kansat olisivat toistensa vastakohtia. Kun länsi on yleensä rationaalisuuden, yksilöllisy…
The Voice of the Vanni Tamil women for Peace
2016
Master thesis development management - University of Agder 2016 The civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end in 2009, costing more than 40,000 civilian lives and resulting in major destruction of private and public property. At the end of the civil war the government of Sri Lanka promised peace through passing of amendments to the constitution, initiating reforms to institutions and ensuring human rights and freedom for civilians. The government’s promise of peace has become subject to the criticism of ethnic politics. While assuring peace through constitutional and institutional reforms and human rights and freedom for civilians, the government has promoted victors’ peace by celebrating the m…