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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 April 2024
      21 November 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009442459
      9781009442466
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      (228 x 152 mm)
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      0.51kg, 250 Pages
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    In 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. This title is available Open Access.

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    Contents

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    • Frontmatter
      pp i-viii
    • Dedication
      pp ix-x
    • Contents
      pp xi-xii
    • List of Illustrations
      pp xiii-xiv
    • Acknowledgements
      pp xv-xviii
    • A Typographical Note on Separatism
      pp xix-xx
    • List of Abbreviations
      pp xxi-xxii
    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-16
    • 2 - Sovereignty, Performativity and Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
      pp 17-47
    • 3 - Performing an Insurgent Sovereign Experiment
      pp 48-76
    • 4 - Reconstituting ‘Pure Tamil Space’ after Sovereign Erasure
      pp 77-99
    • 5 - The Bureaucratic Evolution of Devolution
      pp 100-126
    • 6 - Tamil Nationalist Anti-politics in the Wake of Defeat
      pp 127-155
    • 7 - Conclusion
      pp 156-175
    • Epilogue
      pp 176-181
    • Glossary
      pp 182-182
    • References
      pp 183-214
    • Index
      pp 215-226

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