Enduring violence: Everyday life and conflict in eastern Sri Lanka
- ISBN-10
- 1526130750
- ISBN-13
- 9781526130754
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-30
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Rebecca Walker
Description
Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author’s two-year close interaction with a group of (mainly women) human rights activists in the area. The book describes how the activists work in clandestine, informal ways to support families whose loved ones have been threatened, disappeared or killed and how they build networks of trust within the context of everyday violence. As Sri Lanka faces up to the enormity of the task of ‘post-war reconciliation’, this book aims to create a wider conversation about grief, resistance and healing in the context of violence and its long afterlife.
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- 2016
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- New Ethnographies
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- 2011-04
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of California Press
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- 2011-03-19
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of California Press
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