- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations, map.
- 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
- Sacred modernity (Online)
- Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12.
- Alternative Title
- Sacred modernity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013387559
- OCLC
- ssj0001180573
- Author
Jazeel, Tariq.
- Title
Sacred modernity [electronic resource] : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / Tariq Jazeel.
- Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
- Series
Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12
Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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