| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Contents |
Constituting martial virtue : the processes of militarization in Sri Lanka -- Marketing war, marketing peace : mediating global capital and national security -- Staging pain : the disabled soldier and the Butterflies Theatre -- Allegories of war : the politics of childhood, mourning and melancholia in the tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden -- Figure of speech : the female suicide bomber, censorship and the literary-cinematic site -- The promise of the archive : memory, testimony and feminist domains |
| Summary |
Militarizing Sri Lanka is a study of the militarization that has buttressed. the war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE for over two decades. It highlights. militarization as a process through which the ideology of militarism is shaped. and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict a part of institutional. structures and ways of thought. It foregrounds militarization as activity and. agency, capable of adaptation and transforming society in significant ways; and. as a deeply gendered, contingent and shifting process. It also analyzes both the. construction and resista |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-318) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
National security -- Sri Lanka
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Nationalism and feminism -- Sri Lanka
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HISTORY.
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Military policy
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National security
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Nationalism and feminism
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 1978- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127143
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Sri Lanka -- Military policy
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| Subject |
Sri Lanka
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788132100072 |
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8132100077 |
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1281965731 |
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9781281965738 |
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