Focuses on the process of militarization of Sri Lanka between the late 1980s and 2005. This book highlights how the ideology of militarism is shaped and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict a part of institutional structures and ways of thought.

"Militarizing Sri Lanka", written against the background of the armed conflict between the Sri Lankan state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), focuses on the process of militarization of the country between the late 1980s and 2005.Taking a cultural studies approach, the study: draws on cultural, feminist, communication, psychosocial, anthropological, film, theatre and political economy studies; highlights how the ideology of militarism is shaped and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict a part of institutional structures and ways of thought; shows how militarization works through the popular media, advertising, theatre, film, literature and memorialization; uses case studies of military advertising, disabled soldiers, children in the conflict zones, the LTTE female suicide bomber, censorship and archiving; and, illustrates how militarization represents war and martial virtue as valour, heroism and masculine pride, and categorizes their opposites as cowardice, treason and feminization.