Performing sovereign aspirations : Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
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Performing sovereign aspirations : Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
（South Asia in the social sciences）
Cambridge University Press, 2024
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-214) and index
Summary:"In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. Performing Sovereign Aspirations adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape that 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 the 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 co