One of the first postwar anthropological studies of northeast Sri Lanka, that focuses explicitly on the politics of everyday life in counterinsurgent environments
Presents empirical advances in the study of cooperation and conflict processes among deeply divided societies
Appeals to a broad range of sub-disciplines through its integrative approach to studying cooperation, and by engaging with conceptual gaps inherent within collective action research and moral economy approaches
Paves the way for a new thematic research agenda broadly termed as the micro-politics of everyday cooperation

Autorentext

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa is an environmental anthropologist with the Development and Knowledge Sociology working group at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany. Much of her ongoing research adopts a post-area studies perspective, given her interest in contemporary coastal transformations, alongside marine lifeworlds across multiple island and archipelagic contexts spanning Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea.

Inhalt

Part1. Coastal Entanglements in Everyday Life.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Sri Lanka´s Littoral Northeast.- Chapter 3. Fisher Lifeworlds, Relational Practices.- Part 2. Sambandam: The Lateral, A-Sociative, and The Hierarchical.- Chapter 4. Change and Continuity after Wartime.- Chapter 5. Transversal Ties across the Local-Migrant-Settler Complex.- Chapter 6. Vertical Alliances during Popular Protest.- Chapter 7. Postscript: Thinking through the Sea.