A. R. Rajah

Government and Politics in Sri Lanka (eBook, ePUB)

Biopolitics and Security

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351967990
• Artikelnr.: 48210163

Autorenporträt

A. R. Sriskanda Rajah received his PhD from Brunel University, UK, where he has also worked as Module Convenor/Associate Lecturer in International Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Biopolitics as War
2. Constructing an Ethnocracy
3. In 'Defence' of the Race/Species
4. Unleashing Jihadism and 'Starving' the 'Enemy'
5. War Through 'Peace'
6. Managing Life in Pain
Conclusion