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Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka - Porous Nation (Hardcover)
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Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka - Porous Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
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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.
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