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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009442459
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

In 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.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-viii
  • Dedication
    pp ix-x
  • Contents
    pp xi-xii
  • List of Illustrations
    pp xiii-xiv
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xv-xviii
  • A Typographical Note on Separatism
    pp xix-xx
  • List of Abbreviations
    pp xxi-xxii
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-16
  • 2 - Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
    pp 17-47
  • 3 - Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
    pp 48-76
  • 4 - Reconstituting ‘Pure Tamil Space’ after Sovereign Erasure
    pp 77-99
  • 5 - The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
    pp 100-126
  • 6 - Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
    pp 127-155
  • 7 - Conclusion
    pp 156-175
  • Epilogue
    pp 176-181
  • Glossary
    pp 182-182
  • References
    pp 183-214
  • Index
    pp 215-226

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