Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka

'Pearl of the East' or the 'Island of Tears'?
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9393-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Gewicht: 720 g

Through fifty years of independence, Sri Lanka has suffered mass murders, bombings, assassinations and endless ethnic conflict. This book examines the causes of the conflict and suggests ways it might be solved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamage, Siri

Watson, I B

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - I B Watson and Siri Gamage
PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CONFLICTS
Peace - Bernard Swan
Sri Lanka's Impossible Dream?
Colonialism and National Space - Nihal Perera
Representaions of Sri Lanka
From Non-News to State News - V Nithiyanandam
An Analysis of the Global Projection of Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict
Ethnic Conflict and the State in Sri Lanka - Laksiri Fernando
A Possible Solution?
The Growth of Tamil Paramilitary Nationalisms - Purnaka L de Silva
Sinhala Chauvinism and Tamil Responses
Internationalism of the Tamil Conflict (and its Implications) - Rohan Gunaratna
PART TWO: STORY OF THE CONFLICTS THROUGH THE NARRATIVES
Reasons for Violence - Margaret Trawick
A Preliminary Ethnographic Account of the LTTE
Wearing a Dead Man's Jacket - Michele Ruth Gamburd
State Symbols in Troubled Places
Suite for Kododicholai, Sri Lanka - Marilyn Krysl
Tigers and Temples - Mark P Whitaker
The Politics of Nationalist and Non-Modern Violence in Sri Lanka
The Changing Amman - Patricia Lawrence
Notes on the Injury of War in Eastern Sri Lanka
Tamils and Muslims in the Shadow of War - Dennis B McGilvray
Schism or Continuity?
PART THREE: COSTS OF THE CONFLICTS
Determinants of Military Expenditure in Sri Lanka - P Edirisuriya
The Impact of the Civil War on Tourism and the Regional Economy - Jayatilleke S Bandara
PART FOUR: THE CONFLICTS IN DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
Conflict as a Catalyst - Meghan O'Sullivan
The Changing Politics of the Sri Lankan Muslims
Denigration of the Sinhala People - H L D Mahindapala
Economic Liberalisation, Social Class and Ethnicity - Siri Hettige
Emerging Trends and Conflicts
Post-Independent Political Conflicts in Sri Lanka - Siri Gamage
Elites, Ethnicity and Class Contradictions