Spatialising politics culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka
Spatialising politics culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka
Spatializing politics
- New Delhi Sage 2009
- xi, 238p. ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Spatial politics and postcolonial Sri Lanka / Tariq Jazeel and Cathrine Brun -- The imagined spaces of empire / Nira Wickramasinghe -- Coffee, disease, and the 'simultaneity of stories-so-far' in the highlands of 19th-century Ceylon / James Duncan -- The distance of a shout / Sharon Bell -- Cartographic violence : engaging a Sinhala kind of geography / Benedikt Korf -- Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Tariq Jazeel -- Meeting places? : centre and periphery in civil society peace work / Camilla Orjuela -- Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions : spaces of war and peace in the North / Nihal Perera -- Fractured sovereignty : the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world / Øivind Fuglerud -- Concluding thoughts / Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel.
9788178299297
2008055255
Ethnic conflict--History.--Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka--Ethnic relations--History.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government.
954.9303 / SP-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Spatial politics and postcolonial Sri Lanka / Tariq Jazeel and Cathrine Brun -- The imagined spaces of empire / Nira Wickramasinghe -- Coffee, disease, and the 'simultaneity of stories-so-far' in the highlands of 19th-century Ceylon / James Duncan -- The distance of a shout / Sharon Bell -- Cartographic violence : engaging a Sinhala kind of geography / Benedikt Korf -- Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Tariq Jazeel -- Meeting places? : centre and periphery in civil society peace work / Camilla Orjuela -- Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions : spaces of war and peace in the North / Nihal Perera -- Fractured sovereignty : the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world / Øivind Fuglerud -- Concluding thoughts / Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel.
9788178299297
2008055255
Ethnic conflict--History.--Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka--Ethnic relations--History.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government.
954.9303 / SP-