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An annotated bibliography on social issues in post-war Sri Lanka with particular reference to conflict-affected northern and eastern provinces
2018 •
Dhammika Herath
Parallel Governments: Living Between Terror and Counter Terror in Northern Lanka (1982–2009
Journal Asian_and_African_Studies
This article is a naturalistic and ecological ethnography of the period between 1980 and 2009 in northern Lanka, using participant observation, in-depth interviewing, focus groups, key informants, literature survey and critical inquiry techniques. The Lankan and Indian states and various Tamil militant groups vied for the control, loyalty, obedience and subservience of the civilian Tamil population through terror, counter-terror; the media, arts, history writing, in cyber space and other propaganda; democratic and extra-democratic means such as elections, relief, rehabilitation; and other methods. Community leaders were eliminated and dissent suppressed. Whole villages and communities have been displaced multiple times.
Sex Ratio and Vulnerability in Northern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka
Kalinga T U D O R Silva
This paper examines the impact of war on disproptionate loss of male lives and increased outmigration of males from Northern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka.
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Rebuilding community resilience in a post-war context: developing insight and recommendations - a qualitative study in Northern Sri Lanka
2013 •
Daya Somasundaram
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Emerging ethnic minority sub-cultures: young Tamils in the post-war context in the Tamil-dominated areas in Sri Lanka
2019 •
Richard Antony
Significant socio-cultural and political changes have taken place in Sri Lanka since the end of the most recent war in 2009. There is, however, a lack of research on minority youth sub-cultures in Sri Lanka. This paper seeks to fill the gap, describing different elements of Tamil youth sub-cultures and identifying factors which can be used to distinguish them. The research aimed to explore emerging youth sub-cultures, considering Somasundaram’s idea of collective trauma and Hall’s concept of resistance: which are combined with other broad theoretical conceptualizations and synthesized as resistance, intersectionality and identity, as a lens to understand the sub-cultures among Jaffna post-war youth. Ethnographic approaches are used to understand Tamil youth phenomena, with interviews and focus group discussions among youths and professionals. Seven youth sub-cultures in which war trauma is a predominant factor are identified. The results suggest that in-depth studies of all youth sub-cultures are needed.
Asian Journal of Social Science
Suicide Bombers of Sri Lanka
2010 •
Daya Somasundaram
The phenomena of suicide bombers in Sri Lanka share some similarities with but also have some marked differences with what is seen in other parts of world today. Increasing discrimination, state humiliation and violence against the minority Tamils brought out a militancy and the phenomena of suicide bombers. The underlying socio-political and economical factors in the North and East of Sri Lanka that caused the militancy at the onset are examined. Some of these factors that were the cause of or consequent to the conflict include: extrajudicial killing of one or both parents or relations by the state; separations, destruction of home and belongings during the war; displacement; lack of adequate or nutritious food; ill health; economic difficulties; lack of access to education; not seeing any avenues for future employment and advancement; social and political oppression; and facing harassment, detention and death. At the same time, the Tamil militants have used various psychological m...
We Died and Were Reborn: An Anthropological Study of Health-Seeking Strategies for Mental and Emotional Distress in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
2020 •
Daniel Ball
OF DISSERTATION WE DIED AND WERE REBORN: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF HEALTHSEEKING STRATEGIES FOR MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IN POST-WAR EASTERN SRI LANKA Since the early 2000s, Sri Lanka has made major gains in decentralizing and expanding state-based mental healthcare access and services outside of Colombo. However, little evidence exists related to on-the-ground experiences of Sri Lankans who access these services, the quality and sustainability of services, and the effects services have on individual therapy management of mental and emotional distress. In addition to an extensive historical review of mental health service provision, this dissertation explores strategic health-seeking practices among Tamilspeaking communities in eastern Sri Lanka—an area ravaged by high rates of poverty, 26 years of civil war, and the 2004 tsunami catastrophe. Across 21 months of ethnographic research, I observed psychiatric, traditional, and religious mental healthcare practices and client in...
Psychology & Developing Societies
Development of a Screening Instrument for Post-Traumatic Symptoms: The Sinhala Version of the Impact of Event Scale
2009 •
John Laux, Nick Piazza, Mojisola Tiamiyu
Wounded Society: Social Wounds of the War and the Breakup of Community Social Structures in Northern Sri Lanka in Herath (eds.) Healing the Wounds: Rebuilding Sri Lanka after the War. Colombo, ICES. Colombo and Kandy
Dhammika Herath
Asian Studies Review
A sense of Viidu: the (re)creation of home by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia
2020 •
Anoma Pieris
