Consuming conflict as Tamil consciousness: the case of second-generation British Sri Lankan Tamils

A long-running conflict is wounding for generations, not only by sustaining an affective sense-making between different geolocations but also binding diasporic communities through the conflict’s temporality of pain, violence and loss as enduring legacies. Long-running conflicts leave wounds, generations allotropic process in which trauma experienced second-hand consumed circulation a myriad cultural forms. This paper reveals findings study conducted among second-generation British Sri Lankan youths to understand site constant consumption domestication, yielding sphere sense making. In particular, traces how reified temporally enlarged interactions first second transnational networks peers well media technologies mediating Tamil identity consciousness. induced continuously sustained, renewed negotiated lending construction moral imagination homeland.