Performing Sovereign Aspirations
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Performing Sovereign Aspirations

Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
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Performing Sovereign Aspirations

Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advance Praise
  3. Performing Sovereign Aspirations
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. List of Illustrations
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. A Typographical Note on Separatism
  12. List of Abbreviations
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
  15. 3 Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
  16. 4 Reconstituting ‘Pure Tamil Space’ after Sovereign Erasure
  17. 5 The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
  18. 6 Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
  19. 7 Conclusion
  20. Epilogue
  21. Glossary
  22. References
  23. Index

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