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100			_aKlem, Bart _9752233
245			_aPerforming sovereign aspirations : _bTamil insurgency and postwar transition in Sri Lanka
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_axxii, 226p.
490			_aSouth Asia in the social sciences Volume 25
520			_aIn a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. This book adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape the ensued around the Tamil separatist conflict in Sri Lanka, both during and after the civil war. It draws on two decades of fieldwork across towns and villages in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, ethnography within Sri Lanka's civil service, and privileged access to Norwegian-facilitated peace process. This yields a compelling analytical narrative that shows how political institutions are enacted and witnessed, rather than cataloguing them in the strictures of the law. This provides a fertile vantage point to address the to-be-or-not-to-be dilemmas that we face when seeking to interpret the legitimacy, legality, and validity of the institutions that separatist movements create in aspiration of sovereign status. And as such, this book provides food for thought for broader conceptual debates concerning armed conflict and insurgency.
650			_a Nationalism -- Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- History -- Civil War _9811234
650			_aPeace-building -- Sri Lank _9811235
650			_aSri Lanka -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements _9811236
650			_aTamil (Indic people) -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Sri Lanka _9811237
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