Globalization, Terror and the Shaming of the Nation - Constructing Local Masculinities in a Sri Lankan Village

Informationen zum Autor Jani de Silva completed a BA(hons) in Political Science and went on to do a MSc and Phd in Anthropology. This manuscript is based on a Phd thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in 2000. She received a John D and Catherine T MacArthur post-doctoral Research and Writing-up Award in 2001. She is currently working on the nexus between globalization, violence and the local construction of masculinities in Sri Lanka. Klappentext This book is an anthropological study of a violent encounter between a group of soldiers and 22 schoolboys in a Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. The boys were kidnapped and subsequently tortured to death.

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• Authors: Jani De Silva, Jani De Silva
• Assisted by: Trafford Publishing (Editor)
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2006
• EAN: 9781412078894
• ISBN: 978-1-4120-7889-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics