Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka

life after terror

Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka
Dhana Hughes, Dhana Hughes
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Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka

life after terror

"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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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
189

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Cover of: Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka: life after terror
2013, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
2013, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.

Series
Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series, Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series (Unnumbered)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.02/18095493
Library of Congress
HN670.8.Z9 V54 2013, HN670.8.Z9

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 189 pages
Number of pages
189

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26946744M
ISBN 10
0415532108
ISBN 13
9780415532105, 9781138575493
LCCN
2012049413
OCLC/WorldCat
820107375, 855365017

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Work ID
OL19733651W

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