Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Title | Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Nalani Hennayake |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780739111550 |
In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka.
Spatialising Politics
Title | Spatialising Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Brun |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009-03-12 |
Genre | History |
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Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka brings together a collection of essays that take as their theme the spatial politics of Sri Lanka. It highlights the importance of space in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling Sri Lanka’s continuing civil war and invokes a number of aspects less frequently cited in the dominant approaches to understanding postcolonial Sri Lankan nationhood and identity. The essays in the volume examine the role of ‘spatialities‘ often occluded within the debates on Sri Lankan politics—amongst them, cities and built-space, diasporic productions and imaginations, commodity cultures and their concordant networks, knowledge spaces and ‘foreign’ interventions, landscape and sacred spaces. Situated at the intersection of human geography and postcolonial studies, the book signals the ways that postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked, their intersections evoking the social, spatial and political effects of enduring colonial representations and materialities. The book will be of immense relevance to postgraduate students of human geography and South Asian studies, and will find enthusiastic readership amongst researchers in related disciplines, such as cultural studies, anthropology and sociology, who are interested in the spatial turn in postcolonial theory and its approaches to conceptualising nation, identity and belonging.
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
Title | The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity PDF eBook |
Author | Harshana Rambukwella |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2018-07-02 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1787351289 |
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.
Society And Space
Title | Society And Space PDF eBook |
Author | Nihal Perera |
Publisher | Westview Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1998-04-02 |
Genre | History |
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Here author Nihal Perera traces the historical construction of contemporary social space in Sri Lanka, through the lens of successively colonized and decolonized, then postcolonial spatial transformations. Perera argues that the politics governing the construction of space is of primary importance for those seeking to understand a particular society and culture.
Culture and Politics of Identity in Sri Lanka
Title | Culture and Politics of Identity in Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Mithran Tiruchelvam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Papers presented at a symposium held at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 13-15 March 1997; chiefly reflects the social aspects of cultural and political identity in Sri Lanka.
Spatialising Politics
Title | Spatialising Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Cathrine Brun |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Ethnic conflict |
ISBN | 9788132112549 |
"Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka" brings together essays on the theme of spatial politics of Sri Lanka. Space is an important factor in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling Sri Lanka's continuing civil war. Claims and contestations over the integrity of island space and the control of northern and eastern territories are central to the violently contested dispute. The editors view space from a different perspective. They argue that space is important through a number of registers less frequently invoked in dominant approaches to understanding postcolonial Sri Lankan nationhood, identity and difference. The book examines and historicizes the role of spatialities often occluded within the debates on Sri Lankan politics such as, cities and built-space, diasporic productions and imaginations, commodity cultures and their concordant networks, knowledge spaces and 'foreign' intervention, landscape and sacred space, as well as geographical knowledge. Situated at the intersection of human geography and postcolonial studies, the book signals the ways that postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked and how their intersections evoke the social, spatial and political effects of enduring colonial discourse and representation. In developing its argument, "Spatialising Politics" also gestures towards alternative spatial imaginations, possibilities and representations, at a time when spaces for alternative discourses on Sri Lankan politics are fast shrinking.
Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Title | Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Rajesh Venugopal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108428797 |
Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.