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| Labouring
to Learn |
| Towards a political economy of plantations,
people and education in Sri Lanka |
| Angela
W. Little. |
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In
this publication, Angela Little traces educational progress
from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth
century using a wide variety of primary and secondary sources.
The analysis is embedded with political, social and economic
relations which stretch beyond the confines of the plantation;
within a plural society in which the plantation people have
gradually become more central to the political mainstream
and within a national and global economy in which plantation
production has become less central and less profitable over
time.
Other books available at the Suriya Bookshop are:
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| Nobodies
to Somebodies |
| The rise of
the colonial bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka |
| Kumari Jayawardene-
Leftword Books, India. |
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“A
fascinating and exhaustive Marxist analysis of Sri Lanka’s
development”.
Prabhat Patnaik
“…this
ambitious, category-defying book succeeds both as a work
of scholarship and as an open-ended engagement with the
past. To read it is to be pushed beyond established ways
of seeing, to acquire something of the author’s audacity,
her resolve to step across boundaries to think things afresh”.
Susan Ram, Frontline
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| Civil Society in
Civil War |
| Peace
work and identity politics in Sri Lanka |
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Camilla
Orjuela
Department of Peace and Development Research,
Goteborg University, Sweden. |
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What
possibilities do civil society actors have in contributing
to peace in violent conflicts fought along identity lines?
What are the problems involved in civil society peace work?
This thesis takes on these questions, applying critical, interpretative
and constructivist approach. It draws the attention to actors
who are not visible in war and peace processes, given that
a focus on outside intervention has dominated peace and conflict
research. The case of Sri Lanka is used to scrutinise the
underlying assumptions and possible contributions of civil
society peace work, and to highlight and analyse how identification
processes form part of peace work in violent conflicts in
ethnically divided societies. It concludes that civil society
peace work mainly contributes indirectly to ending wars, and
that its endorsement of alternative discourses and challenge
to the normalization of war and ethnic divides is important. |
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Firstness,
History, Place and Legitimate Claim
to Place-As-Homeland
in Comparative Focus |
.Michael Roberts |
| International Centre for Ethnic Studies
(ICES), Sri Lanka. |
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| Peace
Work |
| Women, armed
conflict and negotiation.
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Edited by Radhika
Coomaraswamy and Dilrukshi Fonseka
Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali for Women),
India. |
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This volume addresses the
need to understand both the in-depth reality of each particular
conflict site – Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Japan, Ireland,
Yugoslavia, South Africa, the Indian subcontinent- and also
the experiences of women peace-workers across these different
sites in a comparative perspective. While discussing the diverse
strategies used by peace-workers and their relative success
or failure, it also underlines the importance of women’s
participation in forging partnerships for a lasting peace.
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| Autonomy
and Ethnicity |
| Negotiating competing claims in multi-ethnic
states.
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Edited by Yash Ghai
Cambridge University Press
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This
book deals with one of the most urgent problems of contemporary
times: the political organisation of multi-ethnic states.
Within the overarching framework that explores different understandings
of ethnic consciousness and the variety of territorial autonomies,
the authors examine the experiences of spatial distribution
of power in Canada, India, China, South Africa, Spain, the
former Yugoslavia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Cyprus,
Papua New Guinea and Australia. The variety of cultural and
political backgrounds of these states, and the different degrees
of autonomy they establish, provide a fruitful base for comparative
insights into the utility of autonomy to accommodate competing
ethnic claims. This important and insightful book will appeal
to scholars and policy-makers alike.
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| Enabling Traditions
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| Four Sinhala cultural intellectuals |
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Wimal Dissanayake
Visidunu Prakashakayo (Pvt) Ltd., Sri Lanka |
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Enabling
Traditions – four Sinhala cultural intellectuals is
an exercise in cultural criticism. Professor Wimal Dissanayake
has selected four of the leading cultural intellectuals in
the country, namely, Munidasa Cumaratunga, Martin Wickramasinghe,
Ediriweera Sarachchandra and Gunadasa Amarasekara, and has
explained their innovative work in terms of the interplay
between tradition and modernity. He does so against the background
of contemporary thinking on culture, history, language and
agency. At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters
is ignored or misrepresented in the outside world, this book
will go a long way in redressing the imbalance. |
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$ 7.00 |
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| Woolf in Ceylon
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| An imperial journey in the shadow
of Leonard Woolf 1904 – 1911 |
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Christopher
Ondaatje
Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Canada
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“In
a magical journey to the outposts of colonial Ceylon, Christopher
Ondaatje has woven together the threads of Leonard Woolf’s
short career in the islands civil service and his increasing
significance as the author of one of the greatest autobiographies
ever written. This book is certain to give today’s reader
a much clearer view as to why Woolf’s reputation is
steadily growing, and why he is now deservedly regarded as
one of the literary giants of the twentieth century”.
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$ 40.00 |
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| Embodied Violence
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| Communalising women’s sexuality
in South Asia |
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Edited by Kumari
Jayawardena and Malathi De Alwis
Kali for Women, India
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Embodied
Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways
in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity
on women’s bodies. Focusing on communal violence, it
explores how such violence reconfigures women’s experiences,
facilitates the formation of particular identities and the
dissemination of specific ideologies and how it positions
women vis-à-vis their communities as well as the State.
A distinguished cast of contributors explores the relationship
between ideals of motherhood, tradition, community and racial
purity, and uncovers the ways in which women’s bodies
become the recording surface of repressive cultural practices
and symbolic humiliations.
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$ 25.00 |
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| Twentieth Century
Impressions of Ceylon |
| Its history, people, commerce, industries
and resources |
| Edited by Arnold
Wright
Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, Madras
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