Main entry:

Jazeel, Tariq, author.

Title & Author:

Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / Tariq Jazeel.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Description:

xii, 191 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Series:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
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.

Summary:

This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka.

ISBN:

9781846318863 (cased)
1846318866 (cased)

Subject:

Nationalism Sri Lanka.
Nature and civilization Sri Lanka.
Nature Social aspects Sri Lanka.
Nationalisme Sri Lanka.
Nature et civilisation Sri Lanka.
Nature Aspect social Sri Lanka.
Nationalism.
Nature and civilization.
Nature Social aspects.
Nationalbewusstsein
Natur
Sri Lanka.

Added entries:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 12.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306896
Call No.: BIB 252439
Status: Available