| Description |
1 online resource (205 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines ; v. 12
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Postcolonialism across the disciplines.
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| Contents |
List of Map and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Sacred Modernity: Nature, Religion, and the Politics of Aesthetics; Part I: Ruhuna (Yala) National Park; 2 Landscape, Nature, Nationhood: A Historical Geography of Ruhuna(Yala) National Park; 3 Inscription and Experience: The Politics and Aesthetics of Nature Tourism; 4 Political Geographies: Promoting, Contesting, and Purifying Nature; Part II: Tropical Modern Architecture; 5 Built Space, Environment, Modernism: (Re)reading 'TropicalModern' Architecture; 6 Architecting One-ness: Fluid Spaces/Sacred Modernity. |
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7 Over-determinations: Architecture, Text, PoliticsConclusion: Sri Lankan Nature as Problem Space; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Sri Lanka.
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Nationalism. |
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Sri Lanka. |
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Nature and civilization -- Sri Lanka.
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Nature -- Social aspects -- Sri Lanka.
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Nature and civilization. |
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Nature. |
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Nature -- Social aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jazeel, Tariq. Sacred Modernity : Nature, Environment and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2013 9781846318863 |
| ISBN |
9781846319976 (electronic book) |
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1846319978 (electronic book) |
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9781846318863 |
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1846318866 |
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9781781388303 |
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178138830X |
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