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The Political Economy of Post-War Reconstruction in Sri Lanka: Development-Security Nexus vs. Tamil Right to Self-Determination
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- Issue Date
- 2017-05-01
- Citation
- Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.5 No.1, pp. 21-48
- Keywords
- unitary state ; geo-politics ; development ; human rights ; war ; Indian Ocean Region
- Abstract
- Post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka, which is aided by many countries, is aimed at consolidating the unitary state structure as part of a geo-strategic security complex in the Indian Ocean Region. In this process, discourses of democratization and human rights have been reconfigured to contain or totally remove any threat to the unitary state emerging from the Tamils in the North and East whose claim to self-determination is seen as a major challenge to the geo-strategic complex in South Asia. In such a context, the bio-politics of the development-security nexus and neo-liberal governmentality operates by strengthening the hegemony of the Sinhala state against the Tamils and weakening or destroying the essential foundations of Tamil nationhood. Without recognizing these local and global dynamics every peacebuilding attempt will fail.
- ISSN
- 2288-2693 (print)
2288-2707 (online)
- Language
- English
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