Jani De Silva

Globalization, Terror & the Shaming of the Nation

Constructing Local Masculinities in a Sri Lankan Village

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an anthropological study of a violent encounter between a group of soldiers and 22 schoolboys in a Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. The boys were kidnapped and subsequently tortured to death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781412078894
• ISBN-10: 141207889X
• Artikelnr.: 22047969

Autorenporträt

Jani de Silva completed a BA(hons) in Political Science and went on to do a MSc and Phd in Anthropology. This manuscript is based on a Phd thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in 2000. She received a John D and Catherine T MacArthur post-doctoral Research and Writing-up Award in 2001. She is currently working on the nexus between globalization, violence and the local construction of masculinities in Sri Lanka.