Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Name: Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri LankaPorous Nation\nAuthor(s): Anoma Pieris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367585129, 978-0367585129\nSynopsis\nAnalyses of the Sri Lankan civil war [tel] overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant transformative forces that remain largely unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses.\n\nThis ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from the five-yea.