Rebecca Walker

Enduring violence (eBook, PDF)

Everyday life and conflict in eastern Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author's two-year close interaction with a group of (mainly women) human rights activists in the area. The book describes how the activists work in clandestine, informal ways to support families whose loved ones have been threatened, disappeared or killed and how they build networks of trust within the context of everyday violence. As Sri Lanka faces up to the enormity of the task of 'post-war reconciliation', this book aims to create a wider conversation about grief, resistance and healing in the context of violence and its long afterlife.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130754
• Artikelnr.: 54553461

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Walker is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Inhaltsangabe

1. The beginning of the end 2. Mapping spaces and lives: Batticaloa and the
east 3. Living and learning in Batticaloa 4. Between violence and the
everyday: questions of the ordinary 5. Meena's story 6. 'Kutti annar maram'
(my older brother's tree) 7. In light of new beginnings Bibliography Index