Spatialising politics
Subtitle: culture and geography in postcolonial sri lanka
By: edited by Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel.
Contributors: Brun, Cathrine.; Jazeel, Tariq.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9788178299297
Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka -- History; Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations -- History; Sri Lanka -- Poltiics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spatial politics and post-colonial Sri Lanka / Tariq Jazeel and Cathrine Brun; title: The imagined spaces of empire / Nira Wickramasinghe; title: Coffee, disease and the "simultaneity of stories-so-far" in the highlands of 19th-century Ceylon / James Duncan; title: The distance of a shout / Sharon Bell; title: Cartographic violence : engaging a Sinhala kind of geography / Benedikt Korf; title: Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Tariq Jazeel; title: Meeting places? : centre and periphery in civil society peace work / Camilla Orjuela; title: Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions : spaces of war and peace in the North / Nihal Perera; title: Fractured sovereignty : the LTTE's state building in an interconnected world / Øivind Fuglerud.