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Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka - Life after Terror (Paperback)
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Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka - Life after Terror (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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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.
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