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Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing Ceylon written by Nihal Perera and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maharage Christopher Nihal Perera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing Ceylon written by Maharage Christopher Nihal Perera and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225793
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka in the Modern Age written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.
Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)
Download or read book The Trouser Under the Cloth written by Anoma Pieris and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses architectural examples to illustrate the degree to which political ideology infiltrated personal space during the decolonizing process and to examine the structures that were invented/imagined, for alternative (non-political) means of cultural self empowerment.
Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Society And Space written by Nihal Perera and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Chamindra Weerawardhana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524515
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Decolonising Peacebuilding written by Chamindra Weerawardhana and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the conflict management trajectories of Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, this book engages in a discussion that highlights the importance of ‘decolonising’ approaches to peacebuilding and conflict management in deeply divided societies. Existing knowledge on the topic is largely produced in the Western academy, using global North-centric approaches. This book, written by a researcher from the global South who navigates the political life of a deeply divided society in Western Europe, begins a conversation on a new, 21st century re-conceptualization of ethno-national conflict in deeply divided societies, based on a paradigm of decolonising. This book will appeal to policymakers and practitioners in peacebuilding and related areas worldwide, and students of peace and conflict studies, as well as a general readership with an interest in decolonial approaches to world politics.
Author : Asoka Bandarage
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111204073
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World written by Asoka Bandarage and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty and political and economic democracy in Sri Lanka and the world at large. The book also explores the emergence of the crisis in the context of the accelerating geopolitical conflict between China and the USA in the Indian Ocean. It ponders if the debt crisis, economic collapse and political destabilization in Sri Lanka were intentionally precipitated to the advantage of the Quadrilateral Alliance (USA, India, Australia and Japan). Moving beyond geopolitical rivalry, the book juxtaposes Sri Lanka’s political-economic crisis with the broader ecological crisis of climate change and sea-level rise. The book concludes with a consideration of the ethical dilemmas behind the debt and survival crisis in Sri Lanka and across the world. It points out a range of social movements and initiatives in Sri Lanka and the Global South which subscribe to collective and ecological alternatives and a Middle Path of sustainability and social justice.
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Politics in Colonial Sri Lanka, 1927-1947 written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Very Important Work Of Scholarship And Research Because It Sheds Fresh Light On Some Of The Historical Roots Of Present-Day Sri Lankan Ethnic Politics Through An Examination Of The Last Decades Of Colonial Ceylon.
Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814746790
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Representing the City written by Anthony D. King and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.
Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472568028
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Flow written by Penny Sparke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western industrialised world and embrace a wider geography while engaging with the specificity of climate and place. Accompanied by stunning colour illustration and photography, Flow brings together historical, theoretical and practice-based approaches to consider themes of nature, mobility, continuity and frames.
Author : Michael E. Geisler
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654377
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)
Download or read book National Symbols, Fractured Identities written by Michael E. Geisler and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at national symbols worldwide and the important role they play in creating and maintaining individual and collective identity.
Author : Jørn Borup
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003817629
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Decolonising the Study of Religion written by Jørn Borup and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonising the Study of Religion analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of religion and Buddhism and critically investigates representations, possibilities, and challenges of a decolonial approach, addressing the important question: who owns Buddhism? The monograph offers a case-based perspective with which to examine the general study of religion, where new challenges require reflection and prospects for new directions. It focuses on Buddhism, one religion which has been studied in the West for centuries. Building on postcolonial theories and supplemented with a critical analysis of identity and postsecular engagement, the book offers new possibilities and challenges to the study of religion. It critically investigates decolonisation in the study of religion, subscribing to a third way between ‘objectivist’ and ‘subjectivist’ positions. Analysing the postcolonial and decolonial critique of the study of religion, with a particular focus on Buddhist studies in the West and in Japan, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Buddhism, Japanese religions, anthropology, Asian Studies and those interested in religion and decolonisation.
Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415507383
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Transforming Asian Cities written by Nihal Perera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban processes, particularly the production of space, place, and identity by ordinary citizens. Switching thevantage point to Asian cities and citizens, Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities, and spaces as part of resisting, responding to, andavoiding larger global and national processes. Instead of viewing Asian cities in opposition to the Western city andusing it as the norm, this book instead opts to provincialize mainstream and traditional knowledge. It argues that the vast terrain of ordinary actors and spaces which are currently left out should be reflected in academic debates and policy decisions, and the local thinking processes that constitute these spaces need to be acknowledged, enabled, and critiqued. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional environments are more modern, and Asian spaces are better defined than acknowledged. The aim is to develop room for understandings of Asian cities from Asian standpoints, especially acknowledging how Asians observe, interpret, understand, and create space in their cities.
Author : Kalyani Ramnath
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503636100
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Boats in a Storm written by Kalyani Ramnath and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.
Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317962583
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book People's Spaces written by Nihal Perera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People’s Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make. Current literature on cities and planning often looks at popular resistance to institutional authority through open, mass-movement protest. These views overlook the fact that subaltern classes are not often afforded the luxury of open, organized political protest. People’s Spaces investigates individual’s diverse approaches in reconciling the difference between their spatial needs and spatial availability. Through case studies in Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, and Central Asia, the book explores how people accommodate their spatial needs for everyday activities and cultural practices within a larger abstract spatial context produced by the power-holders.
Author : William Howard Wriggins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876907
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ceylon written by William Howard Wriggins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its independence in 1947 provides a case study of the fundamental issues in these new Asian and African nations. Mr. Wriggins, who spent two years in Ceylon, presents the full historic, economic, political, and social background. He discusses the current political situation in Ceylon, the effect of universal franchise, the increasing communal disorders, the resulting dilemma of representative government, the search for an adequate foreign policy. His findings, which are based on extensive on-the-spot research, illuminate the crucial problem of political change. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009299956
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum written by Ato Quayson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from decolonial perspectives.
