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050	0	0	_aDS489.25.T3 _bK64 2024
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100	1		_aKlem, Bart, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPerforming sovereign aspirations : _bTamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka / _cBart Klem.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_a1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_a South Asia in the social sciences
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
506	0		_aOpen Access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aTamil (Indic people) _zSri Lanka _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
651		0	_aSri Lanka _xHistory _xAutonomy and independence movements.
651		0	_aSri Lanka _xHistory _yCivil War, 1983-2009 _xInfluence.
651		0	_aSri Lanka _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
650		0	_aNationalism _zSri Lanka.
650		0	_aPeace-building _zSri Lanka.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009442466
830		0	_a South Asia in the social sciences.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442459
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