Power, Identity and Conflict in Sri Lanka: Deeper Hegemony

by David Rampton

Standard accounts of identity and conflict have tended to assume that power, nationalist discourses and the conflicts they generate are dominated by political elites and states. This book challenges those traditional assumptions by developing a novel practice-oriented understanding of nationalist identity and conflict operative through socially diffuse networks of power. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka, the text explores how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783480912
• ISBN13: 9781783480913
• Release Date: April 2029
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Length: 224 Pages