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This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance foregrounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast. The concept of caste is used not as a 'primordial' or pre-modern entity but as a lived social formation which assumes different trajectories at different historical moments. Illustrated here is the manner in which ascribed identities are embedded in networks that engage spatial structures, narratives of self and actualised practices, in the same manner as achieved identities, as for instance, social class.

This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance fore- grounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast.� � The concept of caste is used not as a 'primordial' or pre-modern entity but as a lived social formation which assumes different trajectories at different historical moments. Illustrated here is the manner in which ascribed identities are embedded in networks that engage spatial structures, narratives of self and actualised practices, in the same manner as achieved identities, as for insta...

This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance foregrounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast.

This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance foregrounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast. The concept of caste is used not as a 'primordial' or pre-modern entity but as a lived social formation which assumes different trajectories at different historical moments. Illustrated here is the manner in which ascribed identities are embedded in networks that engage spatial structures, narratives of self and actualised practices, in the same manner as achieved identities, as for instance, social class.

This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance fore- grounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast.� � The concept of caste is used not as a 'primordial' or pre-modern entity but as a lived social formation which assumes different trajectories at different historical moments. Illustrated here is the manner in which ascribed identities are embedded in networks that engage spatial structures, narratives of self and actualised practices, in the same manner as achieved identities, as for insta...

This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of every... more This article analyses the shifting fault lines of identity forged in the blood and sweat of everyday life under the different regimes of surveillance foregrounded in the civil war of Sri Lanka. This article explores the manner in which displacement, return, and the aftermath of the war, realigns networks into new webs of reciprocity, in which exchange, including prestige and respect, circulate differently, in the shadow of state and non-state actors. In the shadow of state and non-state actors, the spatial practices, networks and identities surrounding caste are transformed and recast.