Bart Klem

Performing Sovereign Aspirations

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenges state-centric interpretations of insurgent politics by offering a performative perspective on Sri Lanka's Tamil nationalist movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781009442466
• ISBN-10: 1009442465
• Artikelnr.: 69922872

Autorenporträt

Bart Klem is an Associate Professor in Peace and Development studies at Gothenburg University (Sweden). He writes about everyday life and politics amidst armed conflict. He has conducted fieldwork across Sri Lanka's northeast since 2000. He co-authored Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque (Pluto 2015) and co-edited journal issues on insurgent politics (Modern Asian Studies 2018) and on legal identity under insurgencies (Citizenship Studies 2024).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Frequently Used Sri Lankan Terms
A Typographical Note on Separatism
Introduction
1. Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
2. Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
3. Reconstituting 'Pure Tamil Space' after Sovereign Erasure
4. The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
5. Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
6. Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Index.