Violence Torture And Memory In Sri Lanka
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Violence Torture And Memory In Sri Lanka
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Author : Dhana Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Violence Torture And Memory In Sri Lanka written by Dhana Hughes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with History categories.
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.
Cycles Of Violence
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Author : Barnett R. Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 1987
Cycles Of Violence written by Barnett R. Rubin and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Political Science categories.
Part One - Background
Violence Torture And Memory In Sri Lanka
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Author : Dhana Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Violence Torture And Memory In Sri Lanka written by Dhana Hughes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with History categories.
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.
State Violence In Sri Lanka
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
State Violence In Sri Lanka written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Human rights categories.
Living With Torturers And Other Essays Of Intervention
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Author : Sasanka Perera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Living With Torturers And Other Essays Of Intervention written by Sasanka Perera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) categories.
Collection of essays focussing on causes that led to current political crisis in Sri Lanka.
The Search For Justice
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Author : Kumari Jayawardena
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2016-11-21
The Search For Justice written by Kumari Jayawardena and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-21 with Political Science categories.
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important - yet silenced - subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. The essays in this volume examine history and contemporary politics to understand the root causes of sexual violence in Sri Lanka. They look at the polarization created around ethnic and linguistic identities during the three-decades of ethnic conflict, but also scrutinize the routine violence of communities towards their own women in daily life. The authors argue that in this transitional post-war phase, Sri Lankan women must not only be treated as victims, but as agents of change. The writers highlight a hitherto unaddressed aspect of sexual violence: that of the structures that enable impunity on the part of perpetrators, be they security personnel and paramilitary forces, members of armed rebel groups, gangs, local politicians and police or ordinary citizens including close family members. They demonstrate how impunity for perpetrators is both a failure of the formal justice process and a product of individual, community and social conditions and indeed the choices that victims and families make that promote silence over truth. At the end of more than a quarter century of conflict that has left some 100,000 dead, 50,000 women-headed households struggling to survive, as well as countless victims and survivors of sexual violence, the calls for justice can no longer be ignored.
Narrative Of Justice In Sri Lanka Told Through Stories Of Torture Victims
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Author : Basil Fernando
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Narrative Of Justice In Sri Lanka Told Through Stories Of Torture Victims written by Basil Fernando and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Human rights categories.
War Denial And Nation Building In Sri Lanka
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Author : Rachel Seoighe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-05
War Denial And Nation Building In Sri Lanka written by Rachel Seoighe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Social Science categories.
This book begins from a critical account of the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war, tracing themes of nationalism, discourse and conflict memory through this period of immense violence and into its aftermath. Using these themes to explore state crime, atrocity and its denial and representation, Seoighe offers an analysis of how stories of conflict are authored and constructed. This book examines the political discourse of the former Rajapaksa government, highlighting how fluency in international discourses of counter-terrorism, humanitarianism and the ‘reconciliation’ expected of states transitioning from conflict can be used to conceal and deny state violence. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, academics, politicians, state representatives and international agency staff, and three months of observation in Sri Lanka in 2012, Seoighe demonstrates how the Rajapaksa government re-narrativised violence through orchestrated techniques of denial and mass ritual discourse. It drew on and perpetuated a heightened majoritarian Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism which consolidated power under Sinhalese political elites, generated minority grievances and, in turn, sustained the repression and dispossession of the Tamil community of the Northeast. A detailed and evocative study, this book will be of special interest to scholars of conflict studies, political violence and critical criminology.
Suicide In Sri Lanka
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Author : Tom Widger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Suicide In Sri Lanka written by Tom Widger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Social Science categories.
Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes and history. Extending anthropological approaches to practice, learning and agency, anthropologist Tom Widger draws from long-term fieldwork in a Sinhala Buddhist community to develop an ethnographic theory of suicide that foregrounds local knowledge and sets out a charter for prevention. The book highlights the motives of children and adults becoming suicidal and how certain gender, age, class relationships and violence are prone to give rise to suicidal responses. By linking these experiences to emotional states, it develops an ethnopsychiatric model of suicide rooted in social practice. Widger then goes on to examine how suicides are resolved at village and national levels, tracing the roots of interventions to the politics of colonial and post-colonial social welfare and health regimes. Exploring local accounts of suicide as both ‘evidence’ for the suicide epidemic and as an ‘ethos’ of suicidality shaping subjective worlds, Suicide in Sri Lanka shows how anthropological analysis can offer theoretical as well as policy insights. With the inclusion of straightforward summaries and implications for prevention at the end of each chapter, this book has relevance for specialists and non-specialists alike. It represents an important new contribution to South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, as well as to cross-cultural Suicidology.
Historical Dictionary Of Sri Lanka
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Author : Patrick Peebles
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Historical Dictionary Of Sri Lanka written by Patrick Peebles and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
The Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sri Lanka.