The Sri Lankan Political Scene
Author: W. A. Wiswa Warnapala
Publisher: Navrang Booksellers & Publishers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
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Pain, Pride, and Politics
Author: Amarnath Amarasingam
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0820348147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical literature in the area. Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process.
Unmaking the Nation
Author: Pradeep Jeganathan
Publisher: SSA Sri Lanka
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974883977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributed articles focusing mainly on the post-independence political scene in Sri Lanka within the broad framework of nationalism existing among the various ethnic groups during the period.
The Politics of Sri Lanka
Author: T. D. S. A. Dissanayaka
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13:
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Author: Pradeep Jeganathan
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributed articles focusing mainly on the post-independence political scene in Sri Lanka within the broad framework of nationalism existing among the various ethnic groups during the period.
Women and Politics in Sri Lanka
Author: Sirima Kiribamune
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
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Sri Lankan Tamil Society and Politics
Author: Kārttikēcu Civattampi
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The aim of this volume is to provide the socio-political and cultural background to the 'explosion' of the crisis and the history of it from 1977 to 1986"--Preface.
Victory in War and Defeat in Peace
Exploring Confrontation
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783718655069
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The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
Author: Harshana Rambukwella
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2018-07-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1787351300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.
