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Author | : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226789527 |
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Focusing on the historical events of post-independence Sri Lanka, S. J. Tambiah analyzes the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and the minority Tamils. He demonstrates that the crisis is primarily a result of recent societal stresses—educational expansions, linguistic policy, unemployment, uneven income distribution, population movements, contemporary uses of the past as religious and national ideology, and trends toward authoritarianism—rather than age-old racial and religious differences. "In this concise, informative, lucidly written book, scrupulously documented and well indexed, [Tambiah] trains his dispassionate anthropologist's eye on the tangled roots of an urgent, present-day problem in the passionate hope that enlightenment, understanding, and a generous spirit of compromise may yet be able to prevail."—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "An incredibly rich and balanced analysis of the crisis. It is exemplary in highlighting the general complexities of ethnic crises in long-lived societies carrying a burden of historical memories."—Amita Shastri, Journal of Asian Studies "Tambiah makes an eloquent case for pluralist democracy in a country abundantly endowed with excuses to abandon such an approach to politics."—Donald L. Horowitz, New Republic "An excellent and thought-provoking book, for anyone who cares about Sri Lanka."—Paul Sieghart, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author | : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah |
Publisher | : I.B.Tauris |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Etniske mindretal |
ISBN | : 9781850430261 |
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Author | : Stanley J. Tambiah |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520206428 |
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"In recent years much has been written about what Tambiah calls 'the strange malformations' that have resulted at the end of the twentieth century from complex combinations of nationalism, ethnicity, demands for self-determination, and social groups defining each other in terms of religious identity. No one, however, has analyzed how these factors lead to the violence that has become the characteristic of our time as brilliantly as Tambiah has in this remarkable book. His insights as a social science into the political and cultural history of South Asia are informed by a passionate humanism that gives us a new understanding of the dark tragedies of our time."—Ainslie Embree, Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University "Resolutely transgressing disciplinary and spatial boundaries, Tambiah offers a scholarly but accessible, a focused but wide-ranging analysis that places ethnicity on the borderlines of the old and the new, the past and the present, politics and culture...With uncanny skill, he turns the contemporary worry about ethnic politics and violence into a brilliant meditation on the history of nationalism, nation-states, and world-capitalism—in a word, modernity itself. No student of modernity, let alone ethnicity in South Asia and other regions, can afford to ignore this thoughtful inquiry into our modern history."—Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Author | : M. Fixdal |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137092866 |
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Drawing on many of the wars and peaces of recent decades, this book offers a persuasive new perspective on postwar justice. In her analysis wars of succession, wars for territory, and the political institutions that precede and follow wars, Fixdal explores the outer limits of the idea that it is worth paying almost any price for peace.
Author | : Chelvadurai Manogaran |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824811167 |
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Concerns the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
Author | : Muttukrishna Sarvananthan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sidharthan Maunaguru |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295745428 |
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The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities, allowing scattered groups to reunite across national borders. Maunaguru explores how these fragmented communities were rekindled by connections fostered by key participants in and elements of the marriage process, such as wedding photographers, marriage brokers, legal documents, and transit places. Marrying for a Future contributes to transnational and diaspora marriage studies by looking at the temporary spaces through which migrants and refugees travel in addition to their home and host countries. It provides a new conceptual framework for studies on kinship and marriage and addresses a community that has been separated across borders as a result of war.
Author | : Helen Hintjens |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135012482 |
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Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence, security peace and development. Two dominant contemporary approaches are selected for debate on methodologies and ethical choices: rational choice and identity-based theorizing. The chapters are arranged as dialogues around contending approaches, to better understand how the inter-locking fields of violent conflict, peace, development and security can be researched and understood. The book considers how theoretical and methodological approaches relate to different ethical and political choices, including around engagement and intervention in the four interwoven fields. Theoretical, methodological and ethical issues emerge from the critical reviews of academic discourses and case-study based chapters from across the world, including Sri Lanka, Ghana, Colombia and Rwanda. This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and researchers in Development Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies and Security Studies.
Author | : Renee Jeffery |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 110704037X |
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This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Author | : Lawrence Vale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134729219 |
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The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.