03148nam 2200613 a 450 991045252540332120170919031211.01-138-57549-61-135-03814-70-203-77146-X1-135-03815-5(CKB)2550000001107627(EBL)1331866(OCoLC)855504015(SSID)ssj0000955432(PQKBManifestationID)11491073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000955432(PQKBWorkID)10953465(PQKB)10024796(OCoLC)855365017(MiAaPQ)EBC1331866(EXLCZ)99255000000110762720130311d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrViolence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka[electronic resource] life after terror /Dhana HughesAbingdon, Oxon Routledge20131 online resource (206 p.)Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-53210-8 1-299-76722-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it.The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"--Provided by publisher.Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies SeriesPolitical violenceSri LankaCase studiesGuerrilla warfareSri LankaCase studiesTerrorismSocial aspectsSri LankaCase studiesElectronic books.Political violenceGuerrilla warfareTerrorismSocial aspects303.62095493Hughes Dhana914099MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452525403321Violence, torture and memory in Sri Lanka2048038UNINA