{"product_id":"performing-sovereign-aspirations-tamil-insurgency-and-postwar-transition-in-sri-lanka-hardback-9781009442466","title":"Performing Sovereign Aspirations; Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka (Hardback) 9781009442466","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerforming Sovereign Aspirations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenges state-centric interpretations of insurgent politics by offering a performative perspective on Sri Lanka's Tamil nationalist movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBart Klem (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009442466, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e250 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. This book adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape the 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 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 concerning armed conflict and insurgency. This title is available Open Access.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Frequently Used Sri Lankan Terms\u003cbr\u003e A Typographical Note on Separatism\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e 2. Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reconstituting 'Pure Tamil Space' after Sovereign Erasure\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Constitution: government \u0026amp; the state [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Constitution: government \u0026amp; the state\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Constitution:%20government%20\u0026amp;%20the%20state%20%5BJPHC%5D%22\"\u003eJPHC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509145399576,"sku":"9781009442466","price":68.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009442466i.jpg?v=1786493896","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/performing-sovereign-aspirations-tamil-insurgency-and-postwar-transition-in-sri-lanka-hardback-9781009442466","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}