Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life After Terror

ISBN-13: 9781138575493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 194 str.

Hughes, Dhana (University of Oxford, UK)

Opis

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 have inflicted it.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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