Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Healing the forest vii
4. Introduction: Geographies of Everyday Occupation 1
5. Chapter 1. Qırıx: An ‘‘Inverted Rhapsody’’ of Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbakır 29
6. Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka 60
7. Chapter 3. Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan 85
8. Chapter 4. Stateless Citizens and Menacing Men: Notes on the Occupation of Palestinians Inside Israel 115
9. Chapter 5. Indigenous Women and Culture in the Colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 132
10. Chapter 6. Death and Life Under Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir 158
11. Chapter 7. The Missing Grave of Sheikh Said: Kurdish Formations of Memory, Place, and Sovereignty in Turkey 191
12. Afterword: Refining the Optic of Occupation 221
13. Some day 233
14. Notes 235
15. Contributors 281
16. Index 285
17. Acknowledgments 299