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

Bart Klem

doi:10.1017/9781009442459

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Performing Sovereign Aspirations

Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

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Bart Klem, University of Gothenburg

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009442459
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442459
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
Series:: South Asia in the Social Sciences

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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.

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Performing Sovereign Aspirations

Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Dedication
pp ix-x

Contents
pp xi-xii

List of Illustrations
pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xviii

A Typographical Note on Separatism
pp xix-xx

List of Abbreviations
pp xxi-xxii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-16

2 - Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
pp 17-47

3 - Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
pp 48-76

4 - Reconstituting ‘Pure Tamil Space’ after Sovereign Erasure
pp 77-99

5 - The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
pp 100-126

6 - Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
pp 127-155

7 - Conclusion
pp 156-175

Epilogue
pp 176-181

Glossary
pp 182-182

References
pp 183-214

Index
pp 215-226

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