TY - BOOK ID - 137387327 TI - Enduring violence : Everyday life and conflict in eastern Sri Lanka PY - 2016 SN - 1526130750 PB - [Place of publication not identified] : Baltimore, Md. : Manchester Univ Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Violence KW - Social conditions. KW - Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka) KW - Batticaloa. KW - Liberation Tigers of Tamils Eelam. KW - Sri Lanka. KW - Tamil-speaking people. KW - anthropological representations. KW - ethnographic experiences. KW - ethnographic narratives. KW - everyday endurance. KW - everyday violence. KW - non-violent spaces. KW - political conflict. KW - tsunami. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137387327 AB - Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author's two-year close interaction with a group of (mainly women) human rights activists in the area. The book describes how the activists work in clandestine, informal ways to support families whose loved ones have been threatened, disappeared or killed and how they build networks of trust within the context of everyday violence. As Sri Lanka faces up to the enormity of the task of 'post-war reconciliation', this book aims to create a wider conversation about grief, resistance and healing in the context of violence and its long afterlife. ER -