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Author : Sirima Kiribamune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UVA:X004312428
Contributed articles.
Author : Morina Perera,Rasika Chandrasekara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015067825409
Contributed articles.
Author : Swarna Jayaweera
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055096005
During the fifty years since independence, Sri Lanka has made considerable strides in various spheres. Adopting a gender perspective, this volume discusses the impact on women of the social, political and economic developments which have occurred during these eventful decades. Bringing together activists and scholars, this important book thoughtfully reviews the different paths Sri Lankan women have taken to achieve greater political and economic empowerment and control over their lives.
Author : Selvy Thiruchandran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X030198032
On women participation in postcolonial Sri Lankan politics post 1978; a study.
Author : Neloufer De Mel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742518078
This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly within the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationalism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka's history, the author assesses a range of writers, activists, political figures, and movements almost completely unknown in the West. With her rigorous, historically located analyses, de Mel makes a persuasive case for the connections between figures like actress Annie Boteju and art historian and journalist Anil de Silva; poetry whether written by Jean Arasanayagam or Tamil revolutionary women; and political movements like the LTTE, the JVP, the Mother's Front, and contemporary feminist organizations. Evaluating the colonial period in light of the violence that animates Sri Lanka today, de Mel proposes what Bruce Robbins has termed a 'lateral cosmopolitanism' that will allow coalitions to form and to practice an oppositional politics of peace. In the process, she examines the gendered forms through which the nation and the state both come together and pull apart. The breadth of topics examined here will make this work a valuable resource for South Asianists as well as for scholars in a wide range of fields who choose to consider the ways in which gender inflects their areas of research and teaching.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : LCCN:2008307747
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UVA:X004081093
Study constitutes part of a program to improve the quality of life of women in Sri Lanka.
Author : Yasmin Tambiah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X004826450
Contributed studies in various South Asian countries.
Author : Swati Parashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134116133
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives. Extending the notion of war as ‘politics of injury' to the armed militancy in Indian administered Kashmir and the Tamil armed insurgency in Sri Lanka, this book explores how women participate in militant wars, and how that politics not only shapes the gendered understandings of women’s identities and bodies but is in turn shaped by them. The case studies discussed in the book offer new comparative insight into two different and most prevalent forms of insurgent wars today: religio-political and ethno-nationalist. Empirical analyses of women’s roles in the Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, the LTTE and the logistical, ideological support women provide to militant groups active in Indian administered Kashmir suggest that these insurgent wars have their own gender dynamics in recruitment and operational strategies. Thus, Women and Militant Wars provides an excellent insight into the gender politics of these insurgencies and women’s roles and experiences within them. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of critical war and security studies, feminist international relations, gender studies, terrorism and political violence, South Asia studies and IR in general.
Author : Kristian Stokke,Jayadeva Uyangoda
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857286499
The present book uses Sri Lanka’s failed attempt at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key characteristics and shortcomings of liberal peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded neoliberal development.
Author : Sandya Hewamanne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812202250
Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang." Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality. By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.
Author : Kumudini Samuel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X030247703
Author : Chulani Kodikara,Sri Lanka. Ministry of Child Development and Women's Empowerment,United Nations Development Programme (Sri Lanka)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political participation
ISBN : 955024900X
Author : Raksha Vasudevan
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782940503261
Northern Sri Lanka has been at the heart of the country’s 30-year civil war, a bloody conflict which has given rise to an estimated 40,000 households headed by women in this region. Based on fieldwork conducted in 10 villages and towns, this ePaper aims to identify and describe the most pervasive economic, physical and psycho-social vulnerabilities that female heads of households (FHHs) in the north face in the post-war context. It also traces how the state has shaped these vulnerabilities through its pursuit of a national security agenda under the guise of “reconstruction.” The response strategies that FHHs have deployed in response to these vulnerabilities range from the creation of innovative livelihood opportunities to acts of “everyday politics” that contest the structures of patriarchy and state-led domination which attempt to marginalize the diversity of FHHs’ stories, hardships and responses. These findings suggest that, rather than being passive victims of socio-political manipulation and oppression, FHHs are highly vulnerable but active agents in their own lives. Though inevitably influenced by unequal power relations and gendered norms, through their response strategies, they also contest the narrow identities constructed for Tamil women and their simplistic portrayal as either “powerless victims” or “empowered warriors”.
Author : Kazuki Iwanaga
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940164
The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.
