Enduring Violence - Everyday Life and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Walker is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Klappentext This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. Zusammenfassung This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The beginning of the end 2. Mapping spaces and lives: Batticaloa and the east 3. Living and learning in Batticaloa 4. Between violence and the everyday: questions of the ordinary 5. Meena's story 6. 'Kutti annar maram' (my older brother's tree) 7. In light of new beginnings BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Walker, Rebecca S. Walker
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781526108630
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0863-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society