Tattered scripts: Stories about the transmission of trauma across generations

Fewell, Judith

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2015.11.002

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“…Nevertheless, it should be acknowledged that parents may try to protect their children from the burden of negative experiences or traumas experienced in past times and places associated with migration and resettlement journeys (Valentine and Sporton, 2009;Boccagni and Baldassar, 2015). Parents', siblings' and older generations' migration trajectories and memories may therefore form an important part of the social context which, although not directly accessible to young people, may be passed on from one generation to the next through silences, avoidances or 'hauntings' (Fewell, 2016), shaping young people's emotional worlds and translocal connections. Similarly, Hope emphasised the closeness of her kin-like relationship with her friend, developed through shared domestic routines and company in homespace: "She's practically a sister and she's lived with us on and off for a long time, not purposefully but accidently just stayed for a couple of weeks.…”

Section: 'Contrapuntal' Analysis Of the Self-portraitsmentioning

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Picturing translocal youth: Self‐portraits of young Syrian refugees and young people of diverse African heritages in South‐East England

Evans

2020

Population Space and Place

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Young refugees and diasporic youth often have multiply-located senses of self. Using a creative visual methodology, recently arrived young Syrian refugees and young people of diverse African heritages born in the UK (aged 16-20) produced digital self-portraits to express their translocal subjectivities. Young Syrians represented themselves as 'bilingual becomings'; learning English occupied their minds and was key to their imagined futures, while their hearts were often associated with the homeland they had lost. In contrast, speaking English was sometimes taken for granted in the art work produced by young people of African heritages, which portrayed hybrid, multilingual selves and translocal relationality.Both groups embraced signifiers of national, religious and cultural identity, but through their silences and omissions, dis-identified with exclusionary notions of 'Britishness', nationhood and citizenship. Their self-representations provide hopeful counter-narratives to hegemonic socio-political discourses that position 'Black African' youth and Muslim young men as a 'threat' and 'illegitimate' citizens.

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Section: 'Contrapuntal' Analysis Of the Self-portraitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Picturing translocal youth: Self‐portraits of young Syrian refugees and young people of diverse African heritages in South‐East England

Evans

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…A collective trauma, such as genocide or war, that may not have been personally experienced but shared in families or collective groups may not be known to the individual but still have an impact on the self. Collective trauma-related memories that may or may not have been spoken by family members may be unconsciously transmitted to the next generation (Fewell, 2016).…”

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Collective Traumas and the Development of Leader Values: A Currently Omitted, but Increasingly Urgent, Research Area

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The number of worldwide traumatic events is significant, yet the literature pays little attention to their implications for leader development. This article calls for a consideration of how collective trauma such as genocide and the Holocaust can shape the values of leaders, who are second- and third-generation descendants. Drawing on research on the transgenerational transmission of collective trauma and leader values, we show how collective trauma resides in (1) cultural rituals and artifacts, (2) community events and commemorations, and (3) family narratives is transmitted to leader descendants through at least three channels: social learning, social identity, and psychodynamics. We also offer propositions that recommend ways in which the transmission of these repositories can shape certain leader values that guide leader behaviors. Our conceptual review suggests that the transmission of collective trauma on leader development and leader values remains under-researched, offering prospects for new research and learning on the origins and seeds of leader development.

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“…However, for some historical scholars, and in line with a wider concern in the discipline for placing emotions in research (see Smith et al, 2009), an interest in experimenting with autobiographical approaches is beginning to emerge (Bondi, 2014;Daniels and Nash, 2004). Recent work concerning liminal spaces and intergenerational trauma showcase most profoundly the threading of traces from the past into present-day autobiographical narratives (Alexander, 2016;Fewell, 2016). Barbour (2016), for example, begins with a reflection on her mother's jewellery box and strands of preserved human hair found encased within a small rectangle brooch found within.…”

Section: Locating Moments: Historical/ Fictional Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical geography II

McGeachan

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in historical geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which historical geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories.

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Tattered scripts: Stories about the transmission of trauma across generations

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Picturing translocal youth: Self‐portraits of young Syrian refugees and young people of diverse African heritages in South‐East England

Picturing translocal youth: Self‐portraits of young Syrian refugees and young people of diverse African heritages in South‐East England

Collective Traumas and the Development of Leader Values: A Currently Omitted, but Increasingly Urgent, Research Area

Historical geography II

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