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Performing sovereign aspirations : Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka / Bart Klem.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klem, Bart, author.
- Series:
- South Asia in the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tamil (Indic people)--Sri Lanka--Politics and government--21st century.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Nationalism--Sri Lanka.
- Nationalism.
- Peace-building--Sri Lanka.
- Peace-building.
- Sri Lanka--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009--Influence.
- Sri Lanka--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. Performing Sovereign Aspirations adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape that ensued around the Tamil separatist conflict in Sri Lanka, both during and after the civil war. It draws on two decades of fieldwork across towns and villages in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, ethnography within Sri Lanka's civil service, and privileged access to the Norwegian-facilitated peace process. This yields a compelling analytical narrative that shows how political institutions are enacted and witnessed, rather than cataloguing them in the strictures of the law. This provides a fertile vantage point to address the to-be-or-not-to-be dilemmas that we face when seeking to interpret the legitimacy, legality and validity of the institutions that separatist movements create in aspiration of sovereign status. And as such, this book provides food for thought for broader conceptual debates concerning armed conflict and insurgency"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
- Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
- Reconstituting 'Pure Tamil Space' after Sovereign Erasure
- The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
- Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781009477574
- 1009477579
- 9781009442459
- 1009442457
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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