Overview
- Provides timely analysis of Sri Lanka’s post-war nation-building project
- Considers the demands of the global liberal order and the workings of international forces on post-war Sri Lanka
- Examines this exclusionary form of nationalism in political performances and the authorship of public space
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, academics, politicians, state representatives and international agency staff, and three months of observation in Sri Lanka in 2012, Seoighe demonstrates how the Rajapaksa government re-narrativised violence through orchestrated techniquesof denial and mass ritual discourse. It drew on and perpetuated a heightened majoritarian Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism which consolidated power under Sinhalese political elites, generated minority grievances and, in turn, sustained the repression and dispossession of the Tamil community of the Northeast. A detailed and evocative study, this book will be of special interest to scholars of conflict studies, political violence and critical criminology.
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Book Title: War, Denial and Nation-Building in Sri Lanka
Book Subtitle: After the End
Authors: Rachel Seoighe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56324-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56323-7Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85885-2Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56324-4Published: 05 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 378
Topics: State Crimes, Terrorism and Political Violence, Crime and Society, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, History of South Asia