Performing nationalism: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic politics in Switzerland,The Geographical Journal

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Performing nationalism: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic politics in Switzerland
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12416
Tanuja Thurairajah ₁

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The history of post-war Sri Lanka has seen an escalation of nationalisms that constantly collide. Post-2009, with the end of the war, the reproduction of narratives around nationalisms has become intense, with home-grown protests for accountability of minority injustices continuing to sustain its fervour over time. Within the context of Switzerland these events in Sri Lanka are invariably aligned with diasporic engagement. Dominant spaces such as the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland become transnational sites for the performance of long-distance nationalism by Tamil diaspora groups, raising questions around legitimacy and claims-making. This paper presents empirical insights as to how long-distance Tamil nationalism is manifested as political engagement, by groups, and/ or individuals, in formal and informal transnational sites within the socio-political landscape of Switzerland. It argues that modes of political engagement are manifested through rituals of performance and performativity such as scripting and iteration of claims-making processes that enable legitimacy in transnational sites of lobby and protest within the UN arena in Geneva during the Human Rights Council (HRC) sessions. The paper situates its analysis within a shift in post-war Tamil diaspora claims-making narratives from a separatist stance to that of victimhood and human rights producing narratives that present the Tamil diaspora as a singular actor albeit with complex heterogeneity.

中文翻译：

表现民族主义：联合国人权理事会 (UNHRC) 和瑞士的斯里兰卡泰米尔侨民政治

战后斯里兰卡的历史见证了不断冲突的民族主义升级。2009 年后，随着战争的结束，围绕民族主义的叙事的再现变得激烈，随着时间的推移，本土抗议对少数族裔不公正的责任继续保持其热情。在瑞士的背景下，斯里兰卡的这些事件总是与侨民的接触相一致。瑞士日内瓦的联合国 (UN) 等主要空间成为泰米尔侨民群体进行长途民族主义的跨国场所，引发了有关合法性和主张的质疑。本文提出了关于远程泰米尔民族主义如何表现为团体和/或个人的政治参与的经验见解，在瑞士社会政治格局中的正式和非正式跨国场所。它认为，政治参与的模式通过表演和表演的仪式表现出来，例如在人权理事会（HRC）会议期间在日内瓦联合国舞台上的跨国游说和抗议活动中实现合法性的声明过程的脚本和迭代. 该论文将其分析置于战后泰米尔侨民声称的叙事从分离主义立场转变为受害者和人权产生叙事的转变中，这些叙事将泰米尔侨民呈现为一个单一的演员，尽管具有复杂的异质性。它认为，政治参与的模式通过表演和表演的仪式表现出来，例如在人权理事会（HRC）会议期间在日内瓦联合国舞台上的跨国游说和抗议活动中实现合法性的声明过程的脚本和迭代. 该论文将其分析置于战后泰米尔侨民声称的叙事从分离主义立场转变为受害者和人权产生叙事的转变中，这些叙事将泰米尔侨民呈现为一个单一的演员，尽管具有复杂的异质性。它认为，政治参与的模式通过表演和表演的仪式表现出来，例如在人权理事会（HRC）会议期间在日内瓦联合国舞台上的跨国游说和抗议活动中实现合法性的声明过程的脚本和迭代. 该论文将其分析置于战后泰米尔侨民声称的叙事从分离主义立场转变为受害者和人权产生叙事的转变中，这些叙事将泰米尔侨民呈现为一个单一的演员，尽管具有复杂的异质性。

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