Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation

by Anoma Pieris

Book Overview

Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815371616
• ISBN13: 9780815371618
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"