Narrating Civil Conflict in Post-war Sri Lanka
Counter Memory, Working-through and Implications for North-South Solidarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vihanga Perera (0000-0001-9988-9791, University of Peradeniya, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | State Crime Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/statecrime.11.2.0172 |
| OpenAlex | W4312993692 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines survivor/witness narratives of the Sri Lankan civil conflict (1983–2009) and their potential as counter-memories that contest and challenge authorized history dictated by the state. In situating the significance of these narratives the article draws on the prevailing conditions in post-conflict Sri Lanka, especially the surveillance and intimidation against public memory in the former war regions and the dominance of Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalism within state power. In orientation, the study is future-oriented and is preoccupied with how survivor narratives can be utilized to strengthen reconciliation and solidarity among different victim groups. It advocates for survivor/witness narratives to be incorporated as classroom material and for frameworks that appreciate comparative readings of conflict to be developed and adopted
CONTEST · Intimidation · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Solidarity · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Witness · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The State, Conflict and the Individual
Sri Lankan Civil Society and its Fanatics
Post-war Sri Lanka
Discourses of Victimization in Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Collaboration, suspicion and traitors
Patterns of political violence and responses of the government in Sri Lanka, 1971–1996
The things they carry
Inscribing the victor's land
Between Memory and History
After the War
Portable Monuments
Jathika Hela Urumaya and Ethno-Religious Politics in Sri Lanka
Between Auschwitz and Algeria
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |