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The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the 'real' or the 'authentic' has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity.
Patriotic Science: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Indigeneity and Decoloniality in Sri Lanka
In: Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, Volume 25, Issue 6, p. 828-845
ISSN: 1469-929X
The politics of language scholarship: there are no truly global concerns
In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Volume 2021, Issue 267-268, p. 253-257
ISSN: 1613-3668
Abstract
Some key categories in the study of language and society – such as the notion of identity and the very notion of language itself – have come under critical scrutiny with the rise of concepts such as translanguaging. While acknowledging the epistemological and political necessity of this critique I caution against the conflation of concepts with social realities. At the same time, I argue for a critical practice that does not subsume the local in favor of global theoretical trends, which can result from conceptual reification occurring due to an insidious nexus between neo-liberal forces and global inequalities in knowledge production.
On hybridity, the politics of knowledge production and critical language studies
In: Language, culture and society, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 126-131
ISSN: 2543-3156
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the 'real' or the 'authentic' has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity.
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Self, religion, identity and politics: Buddhist and Muslim encounters in contemporary Sri Lanka
In: ICES research papers
The 'Cultural Life' of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)
In: Geopolitics, p. 1-48
ISSN: 1557-3028
Violence in South Asia: contemporary perspectives
"This volume explores new perspectives on contemporary forms of violence in South Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and case studies, it examines the infiltration of violence at the societal level and affords a comparative regional analysis of its historical, cultural and geopolitical origins in South Asia. Featuring essays from Sri Lanka to Nepal, and from Afghanistan to Burma, it sheds light on issues as wide-ranging as lynching and mob justice, hate speech, caste violence, gender-based violence, and the plight of the Rohingyas, among others. Lucid and engaging, this book will be an invaluable source of reference as well as scholarship to students and researchers of postcolonial studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural geography, minority studies, politics and gender studies"--
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