Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka

Life after Terror

Bibliographic Data

ID8083508
AuthorsDhana Hughes (corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-07-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueViolence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203771464
OpenAlexW4247035581
Open LibraryOL39576153M
ISBN9780203771464
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies

Criminology · Human rights · Medical emergency · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sri lanka · Torture · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Medicine · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · asia · Case studies · Ethnic Studies · Études de cas · General · Guérilla · Guerrilla warfare · History · India & South Asia · Janatā Vimukti Peramuṇa · Memory · Political violence · Revolutionary · Social aspects · Social Science · Terrorism · Terrorisme · Violence politique · Law

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