Author: Robert N. Kearney
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134355904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality. This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.

Author: A.Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134901544X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Robert N. Kearney
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349177180
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Nihal Perera
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Category : Postcolonialism
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: A. R. Sriskanda Rajah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351967991
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.

Author: Asoka Bandarage
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110838648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: John Holt
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791

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Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.