1st Edition
Government and Politics in Sri Lanka Biopolitics and Security
By A. R. Rajah
Copyright 2017
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British... Read more
Introduction
1. Biopolitics as War
2. Constructing an Ethnocracy
3. In ‘Defence’ of the Race/Species
4. Unleashing Jihadism and ‘Starving’ the ‘Enemy’
5. War Through ‘Peace’
6. Managing Life in Pain
Conclusion
Biography
A. R. Sriskanda Rajah received his PhD from Brunel University, UK, where he has also worked as Module Convenor/Associate Lecturer in International Relations.
