Ways of Seeing Sri Lanka in the times of Warzone Tourism

 

 

Main speaker: Professor Sasanka Perera, Vice-President, South Asian University

Chair: Professor Yogesh Tyagi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi

 

Discussants: Prof. JayadevaUyangoda, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Sanjeev Kumar HM, University of Delhi; Dr. Santosh Kumar Singh, Ambedkar University, Delhi;  Dr. Dev Pathak, South Asian University and Professor Upendra Baxi, former Vice Chancellor, Delhi University

 

Moderator:  Prof Navnita Chadha Behera  University of Delhi

 

Based on Sasanka Perera’s book 'Warzone Tourism: Tales from the Darker places of Paradise (Sage Publications, 2016).  Post-independence Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence. The consequence has been documented and undocumented magnitude of death and destruction. How is such extraordinary institutional violence determining various ways of seeing in Sri Lanka? Through the trope of warzone tourism, this discussion delves into the details of violence, and more importantly the associated monumentalizing

 

(Collaboration: Department of Political Science, Delhi University and Sage Publications)