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.

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Ethnic conflict--History.--Sri Lanka


Sri Lanka--Ethnic relations--History.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government.

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