Demos at war: Revisiting the democratic boundary problem with a performative lens

This essay revisits a classic conceptual puzzle in democratic theory – the democratic boundary problem – to shed new light on contentious politics and separatist conflict in Sri Lanka. This theoretical problem is congruent with the core disagreement of this conflict – whether or not the Tamils compr...

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Main Author: Bart Klem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:Social Sciences and Humanities Open
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123001122