Future Belongs to Us

Dissent, Intimacy, and the Revolutionary Spirit in Sri Lanka

AvHarini Amarasuriya,Sidharthan Maunaguru

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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The Future Belongs to Us is a portrait of a remarkable generation of activists in Sri Lanka, who in their different ways, tried to create a different kind of politics, alternatives to the narrow ethnonationalisms that fuelled the country’s decades-long civil war. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors of the years of war, as well as other kinds of archival work, the book explores the tense relationship between politics and ethics in the lives of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. The stories that unfold, and the issues they open up—about the tensions between intimacy and political engagement, about the place of violence in enacting change, and about radical political experiments in the shadow of the nation—connect to other histories across South Asia and the postcolonial world. The book combines portraits of singular figures, whose biographies intertwine with the twists and turns of local and global politics, with thematic accounts of the early years of the women’s movement, the work of radical Christians, and the launching of new movements focused on environmental issues and human rights. It shows the rise of both new forms of political organization and new forms of intimacy, and the consequent tensions and contradictions between the home and the world. Throughout, the authors foreground the voices of activists themselves, building an original argument about a new structure of feeling whose commitment to the future marked the revolutionary spirit that gave shape to their stories.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-08-03
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Thinking from Elsewhere
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9781531516369

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Harini Amarasuriya (Author) Harini Amarasuriya is an academic and activist. She started her career working in child protection policy before completing a PhD in social anthropology. From 2010 until 2019, she taught at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Sidharthan Maunaguru (Author) Sidharthan Maunaguru is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Tamil Studies at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the anthropology of violence, migration, marriage, politics, religion and futures. He is the author of Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (Washington, 2019) Jonathan Spencer (Author) Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor Emeritus of South Asian Language, Culture, and Society at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out research in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s. His most recent books are the co-authored Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace (Pluto, 2014) and Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia (Cambridge, 2007).

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"No words of praise can capture my profound gratitude for The Future Belongs to Us. If large tumultuous events course through the singularity of lives, these singular figures too are formed in particular milieus in which the force of immediacy and the knotting of several durations in moments of telling are folded together. These three authors have shown the power of collaborative work in elaborating how life was and is continually reinstituted under conditions of ongoing violence and how culture might be redefined as the soul’s search for its society." - Veena Das, The Johns Hopkins University. "This book is about a sensibility that existed from the 1970s through the 1990s, a deeply idealistic sensibility that crossed ethnic boundaries. It is a welcome Sri Lankan anthropology of the revolutionary spirit and a chronicle of lost dreams and imagined futures." - Radhika Coomaraswamy, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict"The Future Belongs to Us is an important work on a period of history bursting with political dissent. It offers a fresh perspective on the early era of idealism within movements for equality, freedom, and liberation in postcolonial Sri Lanka. Attending to the everyday textures of dissent, this book makes a unique contribution to the study of violence and of pro-democracy and human rights movements." - Neena Mahadev, Duke University