culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka Brun, Cathrine. Jazeel, Tariq. text bibliography cau Los Angeles Sage 2009 monographic eng

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xi, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Introduction: Spatial politics and postcolonial Sri Lanka / Tariq Jazeel and Cathrine Brun -- The imagined spaces of empire / Nira Wickramasinghe -- Coffee, disease, and the 'simultaneity of stories-so-far' in the highlands of 19th-century Ceylon / James Duncan -- The distance of a shout / Sharon Bell -- Cartographic violence : engaging a Sinhala kind of geography / Benedikt Korf -- Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Tariq Jazeel -- Meeting places? : centre and periphery in civil society peace work / Camilla Orjuela -- Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions : spaces of war and peace in the North / Nihal Perera -- Fractured sovereignty : the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world / Øivind Fuglerud -- Concluding thoughts / Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel. edited by Cathrine Brun, Tariq Jazeel. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ce--- Sri Lanka Ethnic relations History Ethnic conflict Sri Lanka History Sri Lanka Politics and government DS489.2 .S625 2009 954.9303 9788178299297 (hbk.) 8178299291 (hbk.) 2008055255 DLC 120530 15564736