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Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (19832009) 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.



This 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-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. This

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Introduction: Border Part 1: Normative Spaces 1. Nation 2. Home 3. City Part 2: Human Mobilities 4. Route 5. Camp 6. Site Part 3: Exilic States 7. Ruin 8. Exile 9. Settlement

Sovereignty Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
      Published 6/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780367585129
      978-0367585129
      ISBN-10 036758512X
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      Regional geography Civil wars Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (19832009) 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.



      This 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-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. This

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Border Part 1: Normative Spaces 1. Nation 2. Home 3. City Part 2: Human Mobilities 4. Route 5. Camp 6. Site Part 3: Exilic States 7. Ruin 8. Exile 9. Settlement

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