War Denial And Nation Building In Sri Lanka
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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.
Without Our Undisciplined Army
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Author : Rachel Seoighe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Without Our Undisciplined Army written by Rachel Seoighe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
By describing militarisation, the post-war detention and surveillance of the Tamil community, and state-run projects designed to politically neutralise and culturally erase Tamil life, I examine the post-conflict reconfiguration of Tamil political agency and the potential of the newly established Tamil-led Northern Provincial Council.
War Making And State Building
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Author : Sanayi Marcelline
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
War Making And State Building written by Sanayi Marcelline and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Nation-building categories.
Violent Conflict Terrorism And Nation Building
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Author : K. M. De Silva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Violent Conflict Terrorism And Nation Building written by K. M. De Silva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Nation-building categories.
Contributed articles presented in a workshop, organized by ICES, held during Aug. 3-4, 2007, in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
An Uneasy Hegemony
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Author : Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-31
An Uneasy Hegemony written by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-31 with Political Science categories.
Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development indicators. However, Sri Lanka's modern history can also be read as a tragic story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years of violent conflicts. Two long spells of anti-state youth uprisings were followed by nearly three decades of civil war, and most recently a renewed upsurge of events are examples of the on-going uneasy project of state-building. This book discusses that state-building in Sri Lanka is centred on the struggle for hegemony amidst a kind of politics that rejects individual and group equality, opposes the social integration of marginalised groups and appeals to narrow, fearful and xenophobic tendencies among the majority population and minorities alike. It answers the pressing questions of - How do the dynamics of intra-Sinhalese class relations and Sinhalese politics influence the trajectories of post-colonial state-building? What tensions emerge over time, between Sinhalese hegemony-building and wider state-building? How did these tensions manifest in majority and minority relationships?
Post War Dilemmas Of Sri Lanka
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Author : S. I. Keethaponcalan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Post War Dilemmas Of Sri Lanka written by S. I. Keethaponcalan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Political Science categories.
By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconciliation. The research, founded on primary as well as secondary data, concludes that political systems have little to do with the success or failure of post-war ethnic reconciliation. The Sri Lankan case indicated that post-war reconciliation is more contingent on the readiness of the former enemies to come together. Readiness stems from, for example, satisfaction in the way issues have been resolved, confidence in the other party's intentions, and the compulsion to coexist. If the level of satisfaction, confidence, and the compulsion to coexist are low, the readiness to reconcile will also be low. The end of the war had a profound impact on post-war governance and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. Hence, the volume provides an in-depth analysis of the factors that led to the military victory of the Sri Lankan government over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. The chapters delve into the nexus between governance and reconciliation under the first two post-war governments. Reconciliation did not materialize in this period. Instead, new fault-lines emerged as attacks on the Muslim community escalated drastically. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of relations between the Sinhalese and Muslims and the Tamils and Muslims, as well as the nature and causes of post-war anti-Muslim riots.
Sovereignty Space And Civil War In Sri Lanka
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Author : Anoma Pieris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Sovereignty Space And Civil War In Sri Lanka written by Anoma Pieris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Social Science categories.
Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant transformative forces that remain largely unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses. This ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. This book argues that internecine conflict exposes the implicit violence within nation-state formations; mass human displacements heighten collective and individual ontological insecurity and neoliberalism makes the nation porous in unforeseen ways. Based around three themes – normative spaces, human mobilities and exilic states – it is organised into ten comprehensive, chapter-based explorations of a range of spatial units, including homes, cities, routes, camps and experiences of ruin that were irrevocably politicised by protracted conflict. Focusing on their material transformations over a thirty-seven-year period, the book explores what can be known of the war if we look beyond ethnicity to other salient, shared geographical features of this embattled history. The book uncovers how fealty to exclusionary cultures of political sovereignty aligns us with their violence, limiting our capacity for empathy, a boundary seemingly exacerbated by neoliberal opportunities. Making use of Sri Lanka as a case study to test geographic, architectural and urban methodologies for understanding violence, this book acts as a provocation to rethink current readings of the particular case study while reflecting on the more general impact of marketisation and militarisation in Asia. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including those scholars interested in South Asian history, politics and civil war, South Asian studies, border studies, geography and architecture and urban studies.
Sri Lanka At Crossroads Geopolitical Challenges And National Interests
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Author : Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Sri Lanka At Crossroads Geopolitical Challenges And National Interests written by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Political Science categories.
Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential to be a super connector in fast-developing Asia. While carving out a place for itself in the international arena, Sri Lanka has simultaneously had to look inwards to recover and rebuild its potential, bruised by an era of colonial rule and nearly 30 years of a civil war, with two youth insurrections.This book examines these twin dimensions. First, how Sri Lanka is negotiating its international reach and the spheres of influence that extend from other Asian and world powers, and second, how the country is engaging in nation-building, from days of racial riots to ones of peace-building, reconciliation, more robust governance, and the development of cyber security.Written from the perspective of a Sri Lankan academic and the head of the national security think tank, this book offers insights into how the country has addressed its post-conflict as well as geopolitical challenges, navigated through domestic politics, and ramped up peace-building efforts, to now reach a junction where it can put its foot firmly on the road to prosperity in a new Asian world order.
Building States Building Peace
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Author : A. Sánchez-Cacicedo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Building States Building Peace written by A. Sánchez-Cacicedo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Political Science categories.
Sánchez-Cacicedo provides a critique of liberal peacebuilding approaches and of international interventions in statebuilding processes, questioning how 'global' these initiatives are, using case studies from the Asian region including Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Reconciliation In Sri Lanka
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Author : Minna Thaheer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Reconciliation In Sri Lanka written by Minna Thaheer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Ethnic conflict categories.