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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rebecca Walker, Rebecca S. Walker
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781526108630
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0863-0
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; 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