Understanding the Aboriginal Tribal Experience of Intergenerational Trauma and Resilience with Reference to Identity and Spatial Justice
摘要
This paper provides the interpretations of the geo-spatial consideration of an indigenous people, particularly with Denotified tribes in India who face abuses and struggles for their identity and spatial justice. This impact of trauma in their lives results in an intergenerational trauma in the behaviours, health, and social life of their communities. Specifically, it analyses collective, historical, and intergenerational trauma and the value of the geographical representation through the autobiographical narration of the criminal tribes mentioned in the anthology of stories titled Vimukta: Freedom Stories which is edited by Dakxin Bajrance and Henry Schwarz. The story voices the violent approach in addressing challenges within the Nomadic and Denotified tribes. The demolishing of their geographical space struggles with the health, education, and survival of the people, children, and elders. Due to forced displacement, land confiscation, and the loss of spiritual practices, language, and culture, Indigenous peoples have endured intergenerational and unconscious grief from their historical trauma that is handed down from one generation to the next. Trauma affects a person’s sense of identity and perception of their body and is characterised by a sense of numbness or dislocation.