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Performing sovereign aspirations : = Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing sovereign aspirations :/ Bart Klem.
Reminder of title:	Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka /
Author:	Klem, Bart,
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
Subject:	Tamil (Indic people) - Politics and government - 21st century. - Sri Lanka -
Subject:	Sri Lanka - Economic policy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442459
ISBN:	9781009442459 (ebook)

Performing sovereign aspirations : = Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka /
Klem, Bart,

Performing sovereign aspirations :Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka /Bart Klem. - 1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - South Asia in the social sciences. - South Asia in the social sciences..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).

Open Access.

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.

ISBN: 9781009442459 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1442052
Tamil (Indic people)
--Politics and government--Sri Lanka--21st century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

857569
Sri Lanka
--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: DS489.25.T3 / K64 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 954.93

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