Routledge handbook of contemporary Sri Lanka /
"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 underst...
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Table of Contents:
- If I was president, Sarah Kabir
- Introduction: Situating Sri Lanka / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Amjad 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 and 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 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 and 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 / Kusum Wijetilleke
- The 'dreary pillage of privacy', talking economics in Colombo's tower blocks / Michael Collyer.