The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka: Transnational Commitments to Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780815373971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 188 str.

Eva Gerharz

Opis

This book presents a comprehensive insight into the politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka, focussing on the ceasefire which was negotiated between the Government of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2002 and which lasted until 2006. It explains how development was shaped by interplay and cooperation, but also by the disparities and conflicts between a variety of local and intervening actors, including local organizations and civil society, LTTE, Government of Sri Lanka, international development cooperation and the Tamil diaspora. Starting from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, the author integrates findings from development sociology with new perspectives on transnationalization and the migration-development-nexus.

O autorze

Eva Gerharz is Junior Professor for Internationalization and Development at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is co-editor of The Making of World Society: Perspectives from Transnational Research (2009) and Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (forthcoming).