UID:
edocfu_9959228422602883
Format:
1 online resource (329 p.)
ISBN:
93-5280-114-8
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81-321-1184-2
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1-281-96573-1
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9786611965730
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81-321-0007-7
Content:
Militarizing Sri Lanka is a study of the militarization that has buttressed. the war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE for over two decades. It highlights. militarization as a process through which the ideology of militarism is shaped. and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict a part of institutional. structures and ways of thought. It foregrounds militarization as activity and. agency, capable of adaptation and transforming society in significant ways; and. as a deeply gendered, contingent and shifting process. It also analyzes both the. construction and resista
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Constituting Martial Virtue: The Processes of Militarization in Sri Lanka; Marketing War, Marketing Peace: Mediating Global Capital and National Security; Staging Pain: The Disabled Soldier and the Butterflies Theatre; Allegories of War: The Politics of Childhood, Mourning and Melancholia in the Tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden; Figure of Speech: The Female Suicide Bomber, Censorship and the Literary-Cinematic Site; The Promise of the Archive: Memory, Testimony and Feminist Domains; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7619-3635-1
Language:
English
