LEADER 04919oam 2200673I 450 001 9910809051803321 005 20240314023615.0 010 $a1-138-57549-6 010 $a1-135-03814-7 010 $a0-203-77146-X 010 $a1-135-03815-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203771464 035 $a(CKB)2550000001107627 035 $a(EBL)1331866 035 $a(OCoLC)855504015 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000955432 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11491073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000955432 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10953465 035 $a(PQKB)10024796 035 $a(OCoLC)855365017 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1331866 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132809 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001107627 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aViolence, torture, and memory in Sri Lanka $elife after terror /$fDhana Hughes 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-53210-8 311 $a1-299-76722-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction : life after terror -- 2. The violence of youth -- 3. 'Opportunistic' violence and the impossibility of intimacy -- 4. Talking about torture : stories of torture survivors -- 5. Talking about torture : stories of former counter-insurgency officers -- 6. Possibilities of intimacy in times of terror -- 7. Recreating life after terror and the mundane -- 8. Buddhism and reformulating life after terror. 330 $a"Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it.The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series 606 $aPolitical violence$zSri Lanka$vCase studies 606 $aGuerrilla warfare$zSri Lanka$vCase studies 606 $aTerrorism$xSocial aspects$zSri Lanka$vCase studies 615 0$aPolitical violence 615 0$aGuerrilla warfare 615 0$aTerrorism$xSocial aspects 676 $a303.62095493 686 $aHIS017000$aSOC008000$2bisacsh 700 $aHughes$b Dhana.$01695675 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809051803321 996 $aViolence, torture, and memory in Sri Lanka$94075076 997 $aUNINA