TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klem,Bart
TI  - Performing sovereign aspirations: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka 
T2  -  South Asia in the social sciences
SN  - 9781009442459 (ebook)
AV  - DS489.25.T3 K64 2024
U1  - 954.93 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Tamil (Indic people)
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Peace-building
KW  - History
KW  - Autonomy and independence movements
KW  - Civil War, 1983-2009
KW  - Influence
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024); Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442459
ER  -