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Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) overwhelmingly
represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging
postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the
incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial
divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies,
structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been
established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other
significant transformative forces that remain largely
unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses. This ambitious multiscalar
spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional,
de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the
struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from
the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still
festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational
border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and
illiberal democracy. This book argues that internecine conflict
exposes the implicit violence within nation-state formations; mass
human displacements heighten collective and individual ontological
insecurity and neoliberalism makes the nation porous in unforeseen
ways. Based around three themes - normative spaces, human
mobilities and exilic states - it is organised into ten
comprehensive, chapter-based explorations of a range of spatial
units, including homes, cities, routes, camps and experiences of
ruin that were irrevocably politicised by protracted conflict.
Focusing on their material transformations over a thirty-seven-year
period, the book explores what can be known of the war if we look
beyond ethnicity to other salient, shared geographical features of
this embattled history. The book uncovers how fealty to
exclusionary cultures of political sovereignty aligns us with their
violence, limiting our capacity for empathy, a boundary seemingly
exacerbated by neoliberal opportunities. Making use of Sri Lanka as
a case study to test geographic, architectural and urban
methodologies for understanding violence, this book acts as a
provocation to rethink current readings of the particular case
study while reflecting on the more general impact of marketisation
and militarisation in Asia. It will be of interest to an
interdisciplinary audience, including those scholars interested in
South Asian history, politics and civil war, South Asian studies,
border studies, geography and architecture and urban studies.
Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) overwhelmingly
represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging
postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the
incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial
divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies,
structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been
established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other
significant transformative forces that remain largely
unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses. This ambitious multiscalar
spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional,
de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the
struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from
the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still
festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational
border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and
illiberal democracy. This book argues that internecine conflict
exposes the implicit violence within nation-state formations; mass
human displacements heighten collective and individual ontological
insecurity and neoliberalism makes the nation porous in unforeseen
ways. Based around three themes - normative spaces, human
mobilities and exilic states - it is organised into ten
comprehensive, chapter-based explorations of a range of spatial
units, including homes, cities, routes, camps and experiences of
ruin that were irrevocably politicised by protracted conflict.
Focusing on their material transformations over a thirty-seven-year
period, the book explores what can be known of the war if we look
beyond ethnicity to other salient, shared geographical features of
this embattled history. The book uncovers how fealty to
exclusionary cultures of political sovereignty aligns us with their
violence, limiting our capacity for empathy, a boundary seemingly
exacerbated by neoliberal opportunities. Making use of Sri Lanka as
a case study to test geographic, architectural and urban
methodologies for understanding violence, this book acts as a
provocation to rethink current readings of the particular case
study while reflecting on the more general impact of marketisation
and militarisation in Asia. It will be of interest to an
interdisciplinary audience, including those scholars interested in
South Asian history, politics and civil war, South Asian studies,
border studies, geography and architecture and urban studies.
This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the
threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many
origins and triggers of pandemic events. It covers the impacts
generated by novel infectious disease outbreaks across various
dimensions - from social and ethical to medical and political, from
media to economic and legal implications. The author discusses the
preparedness strategies developed globally, the lessons learned
from various outbreaks and the mitigation measures deployed - from
quarantine and social distancing to data sharing and surveillance
systems - including their unintended impacts. While the risk of
global pandemics is certainly intensely debated by the scientific
community, and increasingly by policy makers at various levels, the
threat is hardly discussed in the public domain. It only permeates
the media during crisis events, such as during the SARS outbreak in
2003, the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-15, and most notably
the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic crisis. This book is thus
highly timely and topical. It has a global scope, whilst at times
zooming in on the implications of pandemic risk and mitigation for
the Global North or the Global South. Given the interdisciplinarity
of the topic, this book will be of great interest to a wider
non-academic audience, as well as students from a range of subjects
including politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and
international development, along with entry-level medical students
keen to widen their appreciation of the social dimensions of the
medical work they set out to conduct.
Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point
for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in
settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there
are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that
cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous
cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the
interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural interests of
Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant community gathering
that fail to garner the economic and politic support to remain
viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely static. They are
places of 'emergence', assembled and re-assembled along a range of
vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of architecture. How might
the traditional concerns of architecture - site, space, form,
function, materialities, tectonics - be reconfigured to express the
complex and varied social identities of contemporary Indigenous
peoples in colonised nations? This book, documents a range of
Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that
led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the
social and political project of the Cultural Centre that
architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture
counts when designing Indigenous Cultural Centres? How does
architectural history and contemporary practice territorialise
spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is architecture for
Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised? This ambitious and
provocative study pursues a new architecture for colonised
Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of recognition to its
heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual engagement as a crucial
condition for architectural projects that design across cultural
difference. The book's structure, method, and arguments are
dialogically assembled around narratives told by Indigenous people
of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial justice, and
architectural presence in settler dominated societies.
Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these
accounts.
Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal
point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures
public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.
While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally
stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed
Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that
serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural
interests of Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant
community gathering that fail to garner the economic and politic
support to remain viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely
static. They are places of emergence, assembled and re-assembled
along a range of vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of
architecture. How might the traditional concerns of architecture
site, space, form, function, materialities, tectonics be
reconfigured to express the complex and varied social identities of
contemporary Indigenous peoples in colonised nations?
This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres
across the globe and the processes that led to their development.
It explores the possibilities for the social and political project
of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords.
Whose idea of architecture counts when designing Indigenous
Cultural Centres? How does architectural history and contemporary
practice territorialise spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is
architecture for Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised?
This ambitious and provocative study pursues a new architecture
for colonised Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of
recognition to its heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual
engagement as a crucial condition for architectural projects that
design across cultural difference. The book s structure, method,
and arguments are dialogically assembled around narratives told by
Indigenous people of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial
justice, and architectural presence in settler dominated societies.
Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these
accounts. "
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate,
ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are
critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country
and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and
cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland
that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political
trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of
national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois
self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri
Lanka. The country remains central to related architectural
discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional
architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous
accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form,
the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an
indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial
influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural
geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious,
comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and
original material and many imaginative insights into the history of
architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the
present day.
This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the
threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many
origins and triggers of pandemic events. It covers the impacts
generated by novel infectious disease outbreaks across various
dimensions - from social and ethical to medical and political, from
media to economic and legal implications. The author discusses the
preparedness strategies developed globally, the lessons learned
from various outbreaks and the mitigation measures deployed - from
quarantine and social distancing to data sharing and surveillance
systems - including their unintended impacts. While the risk of
global pandemics is certainly intensely debated by the scientific
community, and increasingly by policy makers at various levels, the
threat is hardly discussed in the public domain. It only permeates
the media during crisis events, such as during the SARS outbreak in
2003, the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-15, and most notably
the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic crisis. This book is thus
highly timely and topical. It has a global scope, whilst at times
zooming in on the implications of pandemic risk and mitigation for
the Global North or the Global South. Given the interdisciplinarity
of the topic, this book will be of great interest to a wider
non-academic audience, as well as students from a range of subjects
including politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and
international development, along with entry-level medical students
keen to widen their appreciation of the social dimensions of the
medical work they set out to conduct.
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate,
ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are
critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country
and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and
cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland
that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political
trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of
national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois
self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri
Lanka. The country remains central to related architectural
discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional
architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous
accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form,
the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an
indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial
influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural
geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious,
comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and
original material and many imaginative insights into the history of
architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the
present day.
Introduce children to the world of astrology with these bouncy
rhyming poems, highlighting the positive aspects of each sign!
Young readers will explore and discover their own unique
personalities, interests, and talents, and dive into the zodiac
traits of those closest to them. No matter your sign, Baby's First
Zodiac inspires conversation and creates awareness of all the
wonderful ways there are to be you. Because perhaps part of who you
are Is written in the stars See what your birth sign has to say
about you... Does any of it ring true?
Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in
a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few
but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted
social realities are embodied in the physical and material
conditions imagined, produced or experienced through architecture
and urbanism. Drawing on historical, global examples, this rich
collection of essays illustrates how empires, nations and cities
expand their frontiers and contest boundaries, but equally how
borderline identities of people and places influence or expose
these processes. Empirical chapters covering Central Asia, the Asia
Pacific region, the American continent, Europe and the Middle East
offer multiple critical insights into the ways in which our spatial
imagination is contingent on 'border-thinking'; on the ways of
being and navigating frontiers, boundaries and margins, the three
themes used to organise their content. The underlying premise of
the book is that sensitisation to border conditions can alter our
understanding of the static physical spaces that service political
or cultural ideologies, and that the view from the periphery opens
up new ways of understanding sovereignty. In exploring these
various spaces and their transformative subjectivities, this book
also reveals the unrelenting precarity of contesting and living on
the margins, and related spaces and discourses that are neglected
or suppressed.
This book analyzes the factors that drive Boko Haram's violence,
arguing that the movement is rooted in the historical and religious
context of west Africa. The data presented is based on extensive
research, including fieldwork in Nigeria, primary source analysis,
archival work, and large-scale survey analyses. Each chapter deals
with a different case-study that showcases a driver of Boko Haram's
violence, including how the jihad of Usman dan Fodio is used as a
source of contemporary inspiration to Boko Haram; how the
extrajudicial killing of its then leader Mohammad Yusuf spurred the
group to violence; why the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls was
motivated by both ideology and strategy; how the formation of a
caliphate and pledging of allegiance to ISIS gave Boko Haram an
amplified presence; and how the issue of takfir led to the
fracturing of the movement. To succeed in the fight against Boko
Haram, this book argues, the Nigerian state needs to couple
military advances with deep social changes, such as combatting
corruption, reforming the police, and investing equitably across
the country. This book will be of much interest to students of
terrorism and political violence, African politics, war and
conflict studies, and security studies in general.
The present volume is the first study in the English language to
focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a
historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular
focus on the representation of space, especially city space,
gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political
engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary
scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore
the distinctive features of the Italian tradition from the 1930s to
the present, by focusing on a wide range of detective and crime
novels by selected Italian writers, some of whom have an
established international reputation, such as C. E. Gadda, L.
Sciascia and U. Eco, whilst others may be relatively unknown, such
as the new generation of crime writers of the Bologna school and
Italian women crime writers. Each chapter examines a specific
period, movement or group of writers, as well as engaging with
broader debates over the contribution crime fiction makes more
generally to contemporary Italian and European culture. The editor
and contributors of this volume argue strongly in favour of
reinstating crime fiction within the canon of Italian modern
literature by presenting this once marginalised literary genre as a
body of works which, when viewed without the artificial distinction
between high and popular literature, shows a remarkable insight
into Italy's postwar history, tracking its societal and political
troubles and changes as well as often also engaging with
metaphorical and philosophical notions of right or wrong, evil,
redemption, and the search of the self.
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