Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation

ISBN-13: 9780367585129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Anoma Pieris

Opis

This ambitious multi-scalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory.

Spis treści

Introduction: Border  Part 1: Normative Spaces  1. Nation  2. Home  3. City  Part 2: Human Mobilities  4. Route  5. Camp  6. Site  Part 3: Exilic States  7. Ruin  8. Exile  9. Settlement

O autorze

Anoma Pieris is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is an architectural historian by training with a specialist focus on South and Southeast Asian architecture. Her previous publications include Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2012) and, co-authored with Janet McGaw, Assembling the Centre (Routledge, 2014).