Narrating Civil Conflict in Post-war Sri Lanka: Counter Memory, Working-through and Implications for North-South Solidarity

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE State Crime Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.13169/statecrime.11.2.0172
V. Perera
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This article examines survivor/witness narratives of the Sri Lankan civil conflict (1983–2009) and their potential as counter-memories that contest and challenge authorized history dictated by the state. In situating the significance of these narratives the article draws on the prevailing conditions in post-conflict Sri Lanka, especially the surveillance and intimidation against public memory in the former war regions and the dominance of Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalism within state power. In orientation, the study is future-oriented and is preoccupied with how survivor narratives can be utilized to strengthen reconciliation and solidarity among different victim groups. It advocates for survivor/witness narratives to be incorporated as classroom material and for frameworks that appreciate comparative readings of conflict to be developed and adopted.
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叙述战后斯里兰卡的国内冲突:反记忆、努力和对南北团结的影响
本文考察了斯里兰卡内战(1983-2009)的幸存者/目击者叙述,以及它们作为对抗和挑战国家规定的官方历史的反记忆的潜力。为了定位这些叙述的重要性,文章借鉴了冲突后斯里兰卡的普遍情况,特别是对前战争地区公众记忆的监视和恐吓,以及僧伽罗-佛教民族主义在国家权力中的主导地位。在取向方面,该研究面向未来,并专注于如何利用幸存者的叙述来加强不同受害者群体之间的和解与团结。它倡导将幸存者/目击者叙述纳入课堂材料,并倡导制定和采用欣赏冲突比较阅读的框架。
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State Crime POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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