Women and Politics in Sri Lanka
Author | : Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
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Author | : Morina Perera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Neloufer De Mel |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780742518070 |
This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly within the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationalism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka's history, the author assesses a range of writers, activists, political figures, and movements almost completely unknown in the West. With her rigorous, historically located analyses, de Mel makes a persuasive case for the connections between figures like actress Annie Boteju and art historian and journalist Anil de Silva; poetry whether written by Jean Arasanayagam or Tamil revolutionary women; and political movements like the LTTE, the JVP, the Mother's Front, and contemporary feminist organizations. Evaluating the colonial period in light of the violence that animates Sri Lanka today, de Mel proposes what Bruce Robbins has termed a 'lateral cosmopolitanism' that will allow coalitions to form and to practice an oppositional politics of peace. In the process, she examines the gendered forms through which the nation and the state both come together and pull apart. The breadth of topics examined here will make this work a valuable resource for South Asianists as well as for scholars in a wide range of fields who choose to consider the ways in which gender inflects their areas of research and teaching.
Author | : Selvy Thiruchandran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
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On women participation in postcolonial Sri Lankan politics post 1978; a study.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Swarna Jayaweera |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2002-03-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
During the fifty years since independence, Sri Lanka has made considerable strides in various spheres. Adopting a gender perspective, this volume discusses the impact on women of the social, political and economic developments which have occurred during these eventful decades. Bringing together activists and scholars, this important book thoughtfully reviews the different paths Sri Lankan women have taken to achieve greater political and economic empowerment and control over their lives.
Author | : Kristian Stokke |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857286498 |
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 | : Swati Parashar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134116063 |
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives. Extending the notion of war as ‘politics of injury' to the armed militancy in Indian administered Kashmir and the Tamil armed insurgency in Sri Lanka, this book explores how women participate in militant wars, and how that politics not only shapes the gendered understandings of women’s identities and bodies but is in turn shaped by them. The case studies discussed in the book offer new comparative insight into two different and most prevalent forms of insurgent wars today: religio-political and ethno-nationalist. Empirical analyses of women’s roles in the Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, the LTTE and the logistical, ideological support women provide to militant groups active in Indian administered Kashmir suggest that these insurgent wars have their own gender dynamics in recruitment and operational strategies. Thus, Women and Militant Wars provides an excellent insight into the gender politics of these insurgencies and women’s roles and experiences within them. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of critical war and security studies, feminist international relations, gender studies, terrorism and political violence, South Asia studies and IR in general.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : |
Study constitutes part of a program to improve the quality of life of women in Sri Lanka.
Author | : Kazuki Iwanaga |
Publisher | : NIAS Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8776940160 |
The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.