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2013.
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This article explores the ways in which people who have perpetrated violence reformulate their lives and recreate sociality in the aftermath, through a focus on the narratives of former insurgents in Sri Lanka. It is anchored in a period of violence known as 'the Terror' (Bheeshanaya), which convulsed the southern and central regions of the country in the late 1980s. Attention is paid to how former insurgents go about recreating their social worlds in a post-terror context where 'perpetrators', 'victims', and 'witnesses' must live side-by-side in the absence of justice or reconciliation. This article suggests that for many 'perpetrators' of violence, rebuilding life in the aftermath is grounded in the mundane. The everyday that former insurgents must continually negotiate is saturated with the ethical charge of their past violence, which shapes sociality in the present in convoluted ways. Past violence and its complex moral evaluations linger beneath the everyday and surface unexpectedly under the most banal circumstances. Former insurgents reflexively put in place carefully thought-out strategies to re-create sociality and proactively attempt to manage the obstacles that their violent pasts may throw in the way of their ongoing attempts to reclaim their social worlds after terror.
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095246
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2010.
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This paper explores the politics of Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the post-1994 period, when it re-created itself as a mainstream parliamentary political party and came to play a critical role in the collapse of the 2001-2004 peace process. The fundamental analytical enigma of the JVP lies in explaining its hybrid Marxist/Sinhala nationalist persona, which enabled it to craft a highly effective campaign of opposition to the Ranil Wickremasinghe government's two-track agenda of peace with market reforms. This paper examines how the JVP's Marxism relates to its Sinhala nationalism, and how it fits within the Sri Lanka's Marxist tradition as a whole. It argues that the JVP's increasing emphasis on Sinhala nationalism post-1999 has occurred in the context of de-radicalisation and parliamentary habilitation, and discusses the relevance of its ideological orientation to the material basis of Sinhala nationalism and its relationship with the social democratic state.
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