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Here twenty-two schoolboys attending the most prestigious school in the district were kidnapped from their homes, taken to a neighbouring army camp, tortured and killed. \u003cbr\u003eThis event took place in January 1990, in the wake of an armed uprising by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna - a Sinhala-speaking insurgent grouping - and its harsh repression by the Sri Lankan State. This event was also played-out against the background of the escalating Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, which created a heightened sense of cultural besiegement across both communities in Sri Lanka. But most of all, it occurred against the unfolding of the 'new' globalization of the 1980s which swept across South Asia. The new globalization at once radicalized a new generation of young persons while creating new anxieties of the vitiation of nation and culture among the native intelligentsia and figures of authority such assoldiers, policeman, leaders and activists of the party-in-power. \u003cbr\u003eThrough the specificities of this event then, the writer attempts to draw implications for the way in which such horrific eventsare enacted everywhere. Such events are united in their excessive violence, and by the fact that both perpetrators and victims are mostly men and boys. She argues that the growing globalization of many marginal cultures condition the way in which young boys engage in the construction of masculinities at the local-level. This results in a clash of praxis between and within generations, the unfolding of which frequently involves spectacular violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633520812305,"sku":"GOR012631336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52196230299921,"sku":"NLS9781412078894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/141207889X.jpg?v=1751304901"},{"product_id":"inhabiting-an-embattled-body-book-jani-de-silva-9781032422732","title":"Inhabiting an Embattled Body","description":"This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka’s Eelam Wars III and IV. It is based on the life-narratives of ex-servicemen who fought on the frontlines. The volume approaches militarism as a practice of masculinity. 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She argues that the Sri Lankan experience has resonance for soldiers on battlefields everywhere, who become embattled when confronted by adversaries whose practice seems to diminish their own manliness.   Rich in ethnographical narratives, this book will be interest scholars and researchers of war studies, gender studies, masculinity studies, peace and conflict studies, ethnic studies, political science, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies, especially those concerned with Sri Lanka.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51017406120209,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51017408217361,"sku":"NIN9781032422732","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52596563018001,"sku":"NLS9781032422732","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032422734.jpg?v=1751174579"},{"product_id":"inhabiting-an-embattled-body-book-jani-de-silva-9780367556020","title":"Inhabiting an Embattled Body","description":"This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka’s Eelam Wars III and IV. 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