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Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation is a critical examination of how geography, architecture, and spatial organization intersected with political conflict during Sri Lanka’s prolonged civil war. Anoma Pieris investigates the ways in which contested spaces—from urban centers to border regions—became sites of struggle over state sovereignty and national identity.
The work challenges conventional approaches to understanding civil conflict by emphasizing the material and spatial dimensions of warfare. Through careful analysis of built environments, territorial boundaries, and the movement of populations, Pieris demonstrates how the civil war was not merely a political or military conflict, but fundamentally a struggle over the control and meaning of space itself.
This groundbreaking study contributes to broader discussions about postcolonial states, territorial integrity, and the relationship between physical landscapes and political violence, offering valuable insights for scholars of South Asian history, conflict studies, and urban geography.
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