Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka write by Nalani Hennayake. This book was released on 2006. Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Spatialising Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatialising Politics write by Catherine Brun. This book was released on 2009-03-12. Spatialising Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity write by Harshana Rambukwella. This book was released on 2018-07-02. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka write by Rajesh Venugopal. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.
Society And Space
Society And Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Society And Space write by Nihal Perera. This book was released on 1998-04-02. Society And Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
