Warzone tourism in Sri Lanka : tales from darker places in paradise

An
ethnographic study on internal travel analysed through the perspectives
of Sinhala tourists going from the South to the war-ravaged North.

Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka
explores travellers’ narratives that reflect the experiences and
interactions of those going to northern Sri Lanka, and argues that the
discourses that emerge are not simply based on leisure and innocence of
travel. Rather, they have much to do with the thirty-year civil war in
Sri Lanka and how it has impacted the inter-ethnic relations in the
country, creating two mutually antagonistic forms of nationalism—Tamil
and  Sinhala.

This book is a significant contribution
to academia in light of the disruption of civilian travel to northern
Sri Lanka during the civil war, effectively barring face-to-face access
between citizens, and the narratives which emerge from post-war travel,
highlighting the resentment between the two main ethnic groups.