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  title info:
    title: Performing sovereign aspirations
    sub title: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
  title info:
    title: Tamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
  name:
    name part: Klem, Bart
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. Performing Sovereign Aspirations adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape that 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 the 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"--
  table of contents: Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka -- Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment -- Reconstituting 'Pure Tamil Space' after Sovereign Erasure -- The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution -- Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat.
  note: Bart Klem.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ce---
  subject:
    topic: Peace-building
    geographic: Sri Lanka
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: Sri Lanka
  subject:
    topic: Tamil (Indic people)
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: History
    topic: Autonomy and independence movements
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1983-2009
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation de la paix
    geographic: Sri Lanka
  subject:
    topic: Nationalisme
    geographic: Sri Lanka
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 1983-2009 (Guerre civile)
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    geographic: Sri Lanka
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
    temporal: 21e siècle
  classification: DS489.25.T3 K64 2024
  classification: 327.1/72095493
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Performing sovereign aspirations
    name:
      name part: Klem, Bart
    origin info:
      publisher: Camrbidge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2024015882
  related item:
    title info:
      title: South Asia in the social sciences
  identifier: 9781009442466
  identifier: 1009442465
  identifier: 9781009442459
  identifier: 2024015881
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240502
    record change date: 20250622022542.3
    record identifier: in00005647844
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng