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Sacred Modernity : Nature, Environment and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Postcolonialism across the disciplinesPublication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781846319976
  • 1846319978
  • 9781846318863
  • 1846318866
  • 9781781388303
  • 178138830X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred Modernity : Nature, Environment and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood.DDC classification:
  • 304.2095493
LOC classification:
  • DS489.84 .J39 2013
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Print version record.

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.

7 Over-determinations: Architecture, Text, PoliticsConclusion: Sri Lankan Nature as Problem Space; Bibliography; Index.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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