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From: "Linda Dwyer" <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASI: Member Publication: Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka


> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> Member Publication: Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
> **********
> From: Daniel Bass [dbass6@gmail.com]
>
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of my first book, *Everyday
> Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics*, as part of
> the Routledge Contemporary South Asia series (ISBN: 978-0-415-52624-1).
> Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines
> ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development
> and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri
> Lanka's violent ethnic politics.
>
> Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian) Tamils generally have
> tried to secure their vision of living within a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka,
> not within Tamil Eelam, the separatist dream that ended with the civil war
> in
> 2009. Exploring Sri Lanka within the deep history of colonial-era South
> Asian plantation diasporas, the book argues Up-country Tamils form a
> "diaspora next-door" to their ancestral homeland. It moves beyond
> simplistic Sinhala-Tamil binaries and shows how Sri Lanka's ethnic
> troubles actually have more in common with similar battles that diasporic
> Indians have faced in Fiji and Trinidad than with Hindu-Muslim communalism
> in neighbouring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
>
> Shedding new light on issues of agency, citizenship, displacement and
> re-placement within the formation of diasporic communities and identities,
> this book demonstrates the ways that culture workers, including
> politicians, trade union leaders, academics and NGO workers, have
> facilitated the development of a new identity as Up-country Tamil. It is
> of interest to academics working in the fields of modern South Asia,
> diaspora,
> violence, post-conflict nations, religion and ethnicity.
>
> Ordering information is at
> http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415526241/
>
> Also, if you would like to review the book for a journal or other
> publication, you can fill order a copy with this form:
> http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/9780415526241/
>
> Dr. Daniel Bass
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Southern Connecticut State University
>
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