Human rights activists worldwide rely heavily on naming and shaming rights‐abusing states at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to induce them to comply with international human rights norms. However, what about national‐level actors who seek to shame a government for complying with human rights? This article explores how Sinhala Buddhist ethnonationalist political leaders and ideologues in Sri Lanka invoked the trope of sovereignty as both autonomy and masculinity to shame the new United Front government (2015‐19) and its UN‐supported transitional justice programme designed to address war crimes committed by the state during the last phase of the civil war. In so doing, I draw on and contribute to the literature on shame and global governance and feminist and critical scholarship on sovereignty and masculinity. Moreover, this analysis contends that it is not possible to understand the logic and efficacy of these tropes in postwar Sri Lanka unless we consider the emergence of a hegemonic, anti‐Western, patriotic masculinity and a new idiom of honour that supplements the concept of lajja‐baya (shame and fear of shame) – a central category in the anthropological canon of Sri Lanka.

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在联合国人权理事会捍卫英雄士兵：耻辱、荣誉和主权的男子气概


世界各地的人权活动人士严重依赖联合国人权理事会（UNHRC）点名羞辱侵犯权利的国家，以促使它们遵守国际人权规范。然而，那些试图羞辱遵守人权的政府的国家级行为者呢？本文探讨了斯里兰卡的僧伽罗佛教民族主义政治领袖和理论家如何援引主权作为自治和男子气概的比喻来羞辱新的统一战线政府（2015-19）及其联合国支持的旨在解决所犯战争罪的过渡司法计划内战最后阶段由国家实施。在此过程中，我借鉴并贡献了有关羞耻和全球治理的文献以及有关主权和男子气概的女权主义和批判性学术成果。此外，这一分析认为，除非我们考虑到霸权、反西方、爱国的男性气质的出现，以及补充 lajja 概念的新的荣誉习语，否则不可能理解这些比喻在战后斯里兰卡的逻辑和功效。 ‐baya（羞耻和对羞耻的恐惧）——斯里兰卡人类学经典的核心类别。