Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka

'Pearl of the East' or the 'Island of Tears'?

Gamage, Sirisena; Watson, I.B.

SAGE Publications Inc

09/1999

368

Dura

Inglês

9780761993933

0761993932

720

Through fifty years of independence, Sri Lanka has suffered mass murders, bombings, assassinations and endless ethnic conflict. This book examines the causes of the conflict and suggests ways it might be solved.
Introduction - I B Watson and Siri Gamage PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CONFLICTS Peace - Bernard Swan Sri Lanka's Impossible Dream? Colonialism and National Space - Nihal Perera Representaions of Sri Lanka From Non-News to State News - V Nithiyanandam An Analysis of the Global Projection of Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict Ethnic Conflict and the State in Sri Lanka - Laksiri Fernando A Possible Solution? The Growth of Tamil Paramilitary Nationalisms - Purnaka L de Silva Sinhala Chauvinism and Tamil Responses Internationalism of the Tamil Conflict (and its Implications) - Rohan Gunaratna PART TWO: STORY OF THE CONFLICTS THROUGH THE NARRATIVES Reasons for Violence - Margaret Trawick A Preliminary Ethnographic Account of the LTTE Wearing a Dead Man's Jacket - Michele Ruth Gamburd State Symbols in Troubled Places Suite for Kododicholai, Sri Lanka - Marilyn Krysl Tigers and Temples - Mark P Whitaker The Politics of Nationalist and Non-Modern Violence in Sri Lanka The Changing Amman - Patricia Lawrence Notes on the Injury of War in Eastern Sri Lanka Tamils and Muslims in the Shadow of War - Dennis B McGilvray Schism or Continuity? PART THREE: COSTS OF THE CONFLICTS Determinants of Military Expenditure in Sri Lanka - P Edirisuriya The Impact of the Civil War on Tourism and the Regional Economy - Jayatilleke S Bandara PART FOUR: THE CONFLICTS IN DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Conflict as a Catalyst - Meghan O'Sullivan The Changing Politics of the Sri Lankan Muslims Denigration of the Sinhala People - H L D Mahindapala Economic Liberalisation, Social Class and Ethnicity - Siri Hettige Emerging Trends and Conflicts Post-Independent Political Conflicts in Sri Lanka - Siri Gamage Elites, Ethnicity and Class Contradictions
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