Government and Politics in Sri Lanka: Biopolitics and Security

ISBN-13: 9780367886189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 180 str.

A. R. Rajah

Opis

This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolit

Spis treści

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

　

O autorze

A. R. Sriskanda Rajah received his PhD from Brunel University, UK, where he has also worked as Module Convenor/Associate Lecturer in International Relations.