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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.
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.
Elusive Adulthoods examines why, within the past decade, complaints
about an inability to achieve adulthood have been heard around the
world. By exploring the changing meaning of adulthood in Botswana,
China, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the
United States, contributors to this volume pose the problem of
"What is adulthood?" and examine how the field of anthropology has
come to overlook this meaningful stage in its studies. Through
these case studies we discover different means of recognizing the
achievement of adulthood, such as through negotiated relationships
with others, including grown children, and as a form of upward
class mobility. We also encounter the difficulties that come from a
sense of having missed full adulthood, instead jumping directly
into old age in the course of rapid social change, or a reluctance
to embrace the stability of adulthood and necessary subordination
to job and family. In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how
changing political and economic factors form the background for
generational experience and understanding of adulthood, which is a
major focus of concern for people around the globe as they
negotiate changing ways of living.
Elusive Adulthoods examines why, within the past decade, complaints
about an inability to achieve adulthood have been heard around the
world. By exploring the changing meaning of adulthood in Botswana,
China, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the
United States, contributors to this volume pose the problem of
"What is adulthood?" and examine how the field of anthropology has
come to overlook this meaningful stage in its studies. Through
these case studies we discover different means of recognizing the
achievement of adulthood, such as through negotiated relationships
with others, including grown children, and as a form of upward
class mobility. We also encounter the difficulties that come from a
sense of having missed full adulthood, instead jumping directly
into old age in the course of rapid social change, or a reluctance
to embrace the stability of adulthood and necessary subordination
to job and family. In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how
changing political and economic factors form the background for
generational experience and understanding of adulthood, which is a
major focus of concern for people around the globe as they
negotiate changing ways of living.
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