2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00470.x
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Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka

Abstract: This paper studies the intricate relations between violence and the politics of community in a Muslim enclave in the east coast of Sri Lanka. The enclave will not only be studied as a war‐ridden place, but more so in order to explore the antinomies of community that stem from an inherent governmentality that was triggered by the territorial prisonhood of the enclave situation. Violence, as we will show, is not an interruption, but an intensified continuation of politics – of the politics of community and its d… Show more

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“…However, in practice this distinction is not as easy to trace as we have just suggested. We can discern both counter-politics and politics as usual in the words and actions of our informants and these are played out in overlapping fields (see also Hasbullah and Korf, 2013). Perhaps then neady drawing these kinds of binary distinctions is less important than trying to understand why our informants might suggest that they exist.…”
Section: O M P Ro M Is E S Consensus a N D C O U N Te R-p O Litic Smentioning
confidence: 96%
“…However, in practice this distinction is not as easy to trace as we have just suggested. We can discern both counter-politics and politics as usual in the words and actions of our informants and these are played out in overlapping fields (see also Hasbullah and Korf, 2013). Perhaps then neady drawing these kinds of binary distinctions is less important than trying to understand why our informants might suggest that they exist.…”
Section: O M P Ro M Is E S Consensus a N D C O U N Te R-p O Litic Smentioning
confidence: 96%
“…which is so central to the Sri Lankan sense of the political' ' (2012, 19). Spencer's ethnographies unravel some of the ''antinomies of community'' (Watts, 2004;Hasbullah and Korf, 2012), which signify the attempt at keeping boundaries clean -at separating different ethno-nations (Tamils vs Muslims) -as a process of purification, which has elements of defense against the outside and purification of the inner self. An important element in these geographies of antagonism has been the relationship between religion and the political in Sri Lanka (Abeysekera, 2002;Klem, 2011;Spencer, 2007).…”
Section: Modalities Of Contestation and Their Spatial And Temporal Rementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A plethora of geographers have conducted research on the war in Sri Lanka, the displacement it generated during the conflict (Brun ; Brun and Jazeel ; Hasbullah and Korf ; Hyndman and de Alwis ), the geopolitics of aid that shapes the political landscape (Hyndman ), and the geographies of conflict at the intersection of the conflict and the 2004 tsunami (Blaikie and Lund ; Hyndman ; Le Billon and Waizenegger ), particularly in the North and East of the country. Geographer James Duncan's () book, The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom (reprinted in 2004) is a foundational text on the political geography of landscape, if not squarely focused on the spaces of war in Sri Lanka's North and East.…”
Section: Memory In Post‐war Sri Lanka: the Broader Landscapementioning
confidence: 99%