Sri Lankan society in an era of globalization : struggling to create a new social order /

Sri Lanka has suffered from decades of ethnic strife which has left in its wake a failure of governing arrangements, skewed distribution of economic benefits, and an exploitation of cultural traditions to divide people. Hence, argue the contributors to this volume, the time is now ripe for the peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hasbullah, S. H., Morrison, Barrie M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004.
Temas:
Social change > Sri Lanka.
Globalization.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Globalization
Social change
Social conditions
Sri Lanka > Social conditions.
Sri Lanka > Economic conditions.
Sri Lanka > Ethnic relations.
Sri Lanka
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I : The Challenge of Societal Reorganization; 1
  • Overwhelming Change and Faltering Institutions, 1948-2002; Part II : Tensions of Class and Caste, Group Rights and Individual Freedoms; 2
  • Religious and Ideological Intransigence among the Sinhalese; 3
  • Religious Ideology among the Tamils; 4
  • Tightening Social Cohesion and Excluding 'Others' among the Sinhalese; 5
  • From Differences to Ethnic Solidarity among the Tamils; 6
  • The Rise of Militant Tamil Nationalism, Its Assumptions and the Cultural Production of Tamil Women.

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