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Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka

by Tariq Jazeel , Catherine Brun
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788178299297
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Sage Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 252
  • Original Price: INR 895.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 409 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka brings together essays on the theme of spatial politics of Sri Lanka. Space is an important factor in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling Sri Lanka's continuing civil war. Claims and contestations over the integrity of island space and the control of northern and eastern territories are central to the violently contested dispute. The editors view space from a different perspective. They argue that space is important through a number of registers less frequently invoked in dominant approaches to understanding postcolonial Sri Lankan nationhood, identity and difference. The book examines and historicizes the role of spatialities often occluded within the debates on Sri Lankan politics such as, cities and built-space, diasporic productions and imaginations, commodity cultures and their concordant networks, knowledge spaces and 'foreign' intervention, landscape and sacred space, as well as geographical knowledge.

Situated at the intersection of human geography and postcolonial studies, the book signals the ways that postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked and how their intersections evoke the social, spatial and political effects of enduring colonial discourse and representation. In developing its argument, Spatialising Politics also gestures towards alternative spatial imaginations, possibilities and representations, at a time when spaces for alternative discourses on Sri Lankan politics are fast shrinking.

Brun, Catherine: -

Cathrine Brun is Associate Professor in Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. With a geographical focus on Sri Lanka, her teaching, research, and writing are in the fields of forced migration, humanitarianism, and development geographies.

Jazeel, Tariq: -

Tariq Jazeel is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research and teaching interests are in social and cultural geography, South Asian Studies, and postcolonial and critical theory.

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