This book traces the troubled nexus between the sweeping globalization, which gained momentum in the early-1980s across Sri Lanka, and the cultures of terror, which unraveled over the rest of the decade. It explores the way in which these forces impacted on local discourses of masculinity in Sinhala society, transforming, in turn, the way in which a whole new generation of young boys engaged in the construction ofmasculinities in sites such as the high school.
This book traces these processes through an ethnographic study of extraordinarily violent event that took place in a Sinhala...