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Author | : A. R. Sriskanda Rajah |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351968009 |
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The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.
Author | : G. Palanithurai |
Publisher | : Northern Book Centre |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9788172110406 |
Download Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
Author | : A. R. Sriskanda Rajah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351967991 |
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The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.
Author | : V. Grover |
Publisher | : Deep and Deep Publications |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9788171009404 |
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Author | : Mick Moore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1985-11-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521265508 |
Download The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict.
Author | : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349177180 |
Download Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : W. A. Wiswa Warnapala |
Publisher | : Navrang Booksellers & Publishers |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Sri Lankan Political Scene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kristian Stokke |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857286498 |
Download Liberal Peace In Question Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The present book uses Sri Lanka’s failed attempt at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key characteristics and shortcomings of liberal peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded neoliberal development.
Author | : A.Jeyaratnam Wilson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-01-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 134901544X |
Download Politics in Sri Lanka, the Republic of Ceylon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle