Violence, torture, and memory in Sri Lanka : life after terror / Dhana Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Dhana, author.

Series:

Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Janatā Vimukti Peramuṇa--History.

Janatā Vimukti Peramuṇa.

Political violence--Sri Lanka--Case studies.

Political violence.

Guerrilla warfare--Sri Lanka--Case studies.

Guerrilla warfare.

Terrorism--Social aspects--Sri Lanka--Case studies.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it.The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction : life after terror

2. The violence of youth

3. 'Opportunistic' violence and the impossibility of intimacy

4. Talking about torture : stories of torture survivors

5. Talking about torture : stories of former counter-insurgency officers

6. Possibilities of intimacy in times of terror

7. Recreating life after terror and the mundane

8. Buddhism and reformulating life after terror.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-138-57549-6

1-135-03814-7

0-203-77146-X

1-135-03815-5

9780203771464

OCLC:

855504015