Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

Klem, Bart

  • 出版商: Cambridge
  • 出版日期: 2024-11-21
  • 售價: $4,310
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 226
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1009442465
  • ISBN-13: 9781009442466
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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在一個經歷分離主義衝突的社會中,許多事情並非表面所見。本書採用一種表演的觀點來理解斯里蘭卡的泰米爾分離主義衝突所引發的特殊制度景觀,無論是在內戰期間還是之後。它借鑒了在斯里蘭卡北部和東部的城鎮和村莊進行的二十年田野調查、斯里蘭卡公務員的民族志研究,以及挪威促進的和平進程的特權訪問。這樣做產生了一個引人入勝的分析敘述,展示了政治制度是如何被實踐和見證的,而不是僅僅將它們列舉在法律的框架中。這提供了一個豐富的視角,來處理當我們試圖解釋分離主義運動為了追求主權地位而創造的制度的合法性、合法性和有效性時所面臨的「是與否」困境。因此,本書為關於武裝衝突和叛亂的更廣泛的概念辯論提供了思考的食糧。本書提供開放存取。