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Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood
- Title
- Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / Tariq Jazeel.
- Author
- Jazeel, Tariq
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 191 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka.
- Series Statement
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Sacred modernity : nature, religion, and the politics of aesthetics -- Part I. Ruhuna (Yala) National Park. Landscape, nature, nationhood : a historical geography of Ruhuna (Yala) National Park -- Inscription and experience : the politics and aesthetics of nature tourism -- Political geographies : promoting, contesting, and purifying nature -- Part II. Tropical modern architecture. Built space, environment, modernism : (re)reading 'tropical modern' architecture -- Architecting one-ness : fluid spaces/sacred modernity -- Over-determinations : architecture, text, politics -- Conclusion : Sri Lankan nature as problem space.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7657
- ISBN
- 9781846318863 (cased)
- 1846318866 (cased)
- LCCN
- 2013387559
- OCLC
- 841673266
- Author
- Jazeel, Tariq, author.
- Title
- Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / Tariq Jazeel.
- Publisher
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIV. OF SHEFFIELD. SPATIAL CONSTITUTION OF POWER & POLITICS IN SRI LANKA.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7657