Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka

Nalani Hennayake (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2006
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1155-0 (ISBN)

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Development has traditionally been identified as a neat 'economic' project without much mention of culture or politics. In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka. It analyzes how this relationship emerges in the context of what the author calls 'the postcolonial paradox' of the Sri Lankan state and society. Hennayake emphasizes that the cultural and political intricacies of development can only be captured by a combination of a sympathetic and critical imagination. One has to be sympathetic not to devalue indigenous discourse and its allied cultural sensibilities, yet be critical to unravel the politics that comes with it. Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka is an brilliant attempt toward this aim.

Nalini Hennayake is senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Glossary of Sri Lankan terms and abbreviations
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Dominant Thinking on Development and its Challenges
Chapter 5 Conceptualizing Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Chapter 6 Indigenization, Power Politics and Postcolonial state
Chapter 7 Cultural Politics and Ritualizing Development
Chapter 8 New ideology of 'People-izing' Development
Chapter 9 Culture, Politics and Resistance to Development
Chapter 10 Political Legitimacy to Cultural Sensibility

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.8.2006
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 236 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-7391-1155-8 / 0739111558
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1155-0 / 9780739111550
Zustand	Neuware