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Enduring Violence: Everyday Life and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka

Enduring Violence: Everyday Life and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka

Walker, Rebecca

Paperback

Series: New Ethnographies

AnthropologyGeneral SociologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1526108631
ISBN13: 9781526108630
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Sep 7 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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