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Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror book cover

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Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka Life after Terror

By Dhana Hughes Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who... Read more
1. Introduction: Life After Terror 2. The Violence of Youth 3. ‘Opportunistic’ Violence and the Impossibility of Intimacy 4. Talking about Torture: Stories of Torture Survivors 5. Talking about Torture: Stories of Former Counter-Insurgency Officers 6. Possibilities of Intimacy in Times of Terror 7. Recreating Life After Terror and the Mundane 8. Buddhism and Reformulating Life After Terror 9. Conclusion

Biography

Dhana Hughes is an anthropologist at the University of Oxford, UK. 

"This book is a sensitive, thoughtful, yet provocative addition to the growing body of ethnographic work on violence, memory, and intimacy, and to studies of contemporary Sri Lanka." - Journal of Contemporary Asia

"Hughes writes with a strong,sensitive, and sympathetic authorial voice. She provides a nuanced understanding of positionality and a thoughtful discussion of research ethics and methods. Life after Terror will appeal to anthropologists, South Asianists, and Sri Lankanists. In a classroom, one could use the book to discuss state violence, particularly the microprocesses and lived experience of insurgency and counter-insurgency situations."
Michele Ruth Gamburd Portland State University

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