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The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers
Fighters' Memories of War and Survival
Series: War and Genocide
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Based on fifteen years of in-depth ethnography among the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris and a series of field investigations in Sri Lanka and London. Seeks to understand, on one hand, how a revolutionary organization attempts to produce its members; on the other, the impact...
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Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now exiled in France, Giacomo Mantovan sheds light on the production of self and subjectivity within a revolutionary and authoritarian organisation, and contributes to debates on compliance, resistance, and political agency under authoritarian regimes.
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Description
- Based on fifteen years of in-depth ethnography among the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris and a series of field investigations in Sri Lanka and London.
- Seeks to understand, on one hand, how a revolutionary organization attempts to produce its members; on the other, the impact of this self-making on the fighters' life trajectories, particularly on their ways of thinking, acting, and feeling.
Series: War and Genocide
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The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers
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ISBN: 9781836954552
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Illustration: Bibliography; Index
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 244
About the Author
Giacomo Mantovan holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), ISCTE-IUL, in Lisbon. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh, and a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies. His research focuses on political violence, militancy, and the experience and memory of civil war and exile among Sri Lankan Tamils, particularly former LTTE fighters. Dr Mantovan has published extensively on the narration of the self and the production of political subjectivities during war and migration, as well as on the social consequences of defeat and the commemoration of martyrs.
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