Book/Printed Material Routledge handbook of contemporary Sri Lanka

Title

• Routledge handbook of contemporary Sri Lanka

Summary

• "The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive overview on issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country's contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and political turmoil, and rift with public distrust in today's shifting geopolitics. Chapters by various established scholars highlight this book's pivotal contribution in situating Sri Lanka's turmoil and deprivation in this current conjuncture. The handbook is structured in seven sections: Nations and Nationalism Politics, State and Institutions Economy and Political Economy Work and Life Environment and Environmental Politics Society, Social Systems and Culture Moment of flux, looking ahead. Each section includes on average six chapters covering the social sciences and humanities to survey emerging and cutting-edge areas of the study of Sri Lanka. Multi-disciplinary in focus, the book also includes an introductory and concluding section, which creates the space and platform for senior, mid-ranking and junior academics to engage in dynamic conversation with each other on the subject of contemporary Sri Lanka. Including scholarship from Sri Lankan experts, the handbook creates academic output, which chimes with broader calls in academia on decolonizing the academic landscape. An important reference work, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students from wide-ranging academic disciplines and a focus on Sri Lanka, Asia and South Asian Studies, sociology, environmental politics, development, labour, management, political economy and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Ruwanpura, Kanchana N., editor
• Mohamed-Saleem, Amjad, editor

Created / Published

• London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Contents

• If I was president, Sarah Kabir -- Slivers of Sri Lanka : sways, stability, and system change? / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Amjad Mohamed Saleem -- Island Imaginaries: Insularity, repetition, and the spatial politics of the national / Tariq Jazeel -- Authoritarian Politics and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Survey / Rajni Gamage -- Nationalism, Conflict and Power-Sharing / Bart Klem -- Centring Conflict: Contemporary Sri Lanka in Perspective / Shamara Wettimuny -- Defining Sri Lanka's Identity: Reflections on key constitutional and the legal moments / Bhavani Fonseka and Luwie Niranjan -- Imagining the Nation: A critical overview of Sinhala Nationalism and its cultural coordinates / Harshana Rambukwella -- Eastern Muslims of Sri Lanka: Developing an Identity Consciousness / Abu Bakar Rameez & M.A.M Fowzer -- Transitional Justice: State of Play in Sri Lanka / Farah Mihlar -- Contemporary Gender Activism: Engaging the Law and the State / Kaushlya Ariyaratne and Kiran Grewal -- Sri Lanka's Foreign Debt Crisis: Deep Roots? / Umesh Moramudali -- The Sri Lankan Economy: Hope, Despair and Prospects / Prema-Chandra Athukorala -- Gender inequality in Sri Lanka's Economy: Persistent Challenges / Dileni Gunewardena -- Unveiling the Margins: Women, Caste, Class and Post-War Development in Sri Lanka's North and East / Narayani Sritharan -- Higher education in Sri Lanka: Key Topics / Kaushalya Perera -- Informality, Masculinity, and Agglomeration Imaginaries / Nipesh Narayanan -- The work and lives of agricultural workers / Cinthya M. Caron -- The Gendered Political Economy of Work in Post-War Sri Lanka / Jayanthi Lingam -- Work and life of Sri Lankan garment factory workers: A Gendered Perspective / Shyamain Wickramasinghe -- Microfinance, debt and indebtedness of rural sector workers in Sri Lanka / Nedha de Silva & Amali Welagadara -- Following currents: Oceanic and littoral Sri Lanka / Rapti Siriwardena-De Zoysa -- A political ecology of Sri Lanka's urban and regional wetlands / Missaka Hettiarachchi -- Sri Lanka's Energy Transition: One step forward, Two steps back / MeeNilankco Theiventhran -- Environmental protection in Sri Lanka: A Critical Legal Approach / Kalana Senaratne -- Ecological States: Nature, Militarization, and Nationalism in Sri Lanka / Vivian Choi -- Sri Lanka's environmental history / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Public Health System of Sri Lanka: Past, Present and Future / Shashika Bandara -- Politicising 'the Virtual': Examining the Internet on the Intersections of Gender, and Sexuality in Sri Lanka / Senel Wanniarachchi and Zahrah Rizwan -- Feminist pathways and political possibilities in Sri Lankan plantation studies, Mythri Jegathesan -- Caste in Contemporary Sri Lanka / Dominic Essler -- Dynamics of low-income settlements in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Alikhan Mohideen -- Covid-19: Sri Lanka's Moral Test / Santhushya Fernando -- People in the Palace / Dinesha Samaratane -- After Aragalaya: Moving beyond the status quo? / Oliver Walton -- Consolidating a Dangerous Consensus : the failure of Sri Lanka's public policy complex in 2019 / Kusum Wijetilleke -- The 'dreary pillage of privacy', talking economics in Colombo's tower blocks / Michael Collyer.

Headings

• -  Sri Lanka--Politics and government--21st century
• -  Sri Lanka--Economic conditions--21st century
• -  Sri Lanka--Social conditions--21st century

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• DS489.84

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023059356

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023059356

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059356

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