GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Collective Trauma, Jewish Diaspora, Babylonian Captivity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Diasporas: from the greek: speiro (to sow) dia (over) Connotations: collective trauma and banishment, longing for home and homeland. Each diaspora is unique, and none are uniform. They are also about cultural memory of the event. Typology of diaspora: forced or victim (jews, poles, palestinians, armenians, Inuits, first nations, the trail of tears, slaves), imperial (brits, french, spanish, Portuguese), labour (indians, chinese), trading (indians, chinese, dutch, english, If you come back to queen"s later on in life, it is different. It is arguably less the experience of the exile and the cultural memory. Canadian communities still have strong ties to britain. By the forth century bce more jews were outside than inside israel. Jews in egypt, turkey, damascus and asia minor. Begins with the destruction of the temple of jerusalem by the romans (ce. Emperor constantine makes christianity sole religion of the roman empire (313 ce) Germany and its allies and the holocaust.