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Sacred Modernity
Tariq Jazeel
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Description for Sacred Modernity
Hardcover. This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 204 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HRA; JFSL; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Sacred Modernity argues how everyday non-secular experiences of the natural world in Sri Lanka perpetuate ethno-religious identitarian narratives. It demonstrates the relationships between spaces of nature and environment and an ongoing aesthetic and spatial constitution of power and the political in which Theravada Buddhism is centrally implicated. To do this, the book works consecutively through two in-depth case studies, both of which are prominent sites through which Sri Lankan nature and environment are commodified: first, the country’s most famous national park, Ruhuna (Yala), and second, its post-1950s modernist environmental architecture, ‘tropical modernism’. By engaging these sites, the book reveals how ... Read more
Sacred Modernity argues how everyday non-secular experiences of the natural world in Sri Lanka perpetuate ethno-religious identitarian narratives. It demonstrates the relationships between spaces of nature and environment and an ongoing aesthetic and spatial constitution of power and the political in which Theravada Buddhism is centrally implicated. To do this, the book works consecutively through two in-depth case studies, both of which are prominent sites through which Sri Lankan nature and environment are commodified: first, the country’s most famous national park, Ruhuna (Yala), and second, its post-1950s modernist environmental architecture, ‘tropical modernism’. By engaging these sites, the book reveals how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318863
SKU
V9781846318863
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About Tariq Jazeel
Tariq Jazeel is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.
Reviews for Sacred Modernity
Expansive and intelligent ... [Sacred Modernity is] an entertaining and intellectually stimulating book.