TY  - GEN
T1  - Performing sovereign aspirations : Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
T2  - South Asia in the social sciences.
A1  - Klem, Bart
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009442459
AB  - In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. This book adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape the 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 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. This title is available Open Access.
OP  - 226
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
CN  - DS489.25.T3 K64 2024
SN  - 9781009442459 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009442466 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009442480 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009442466
KW  - Tamil (Indic people) : Sri Lanka : Politics and government : 21st century.
KW  - Sri Lanka : History : Autonomy and independence movements.
KW  - Sri Lanka : History : Civil War, 1983-2009 : Influence.
KW  - Sri Lanka : Politics and government : 21st century.
KW  - Nationalism : Sri Lanka.
KW  - Peace-building : Sri Lanka.
ER  -