Del 19 - South Asia in the Social Sciences

An Uneasy Hegemony

Politics of State-building and Struggles for Justice in Sri Lanka

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvShyamika Jayasundara-Smits,Shyamika (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Jayasundara-Smits

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Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development indicators. However, Sri Lanka's modern history can also be read as a tragic story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years of violent conflicts. Two long spells of anti-state youth uprisings were followed by nearly three decades of civil war, and most recently a renewed upsurge of events are examples of the on-going uneasy project of state-building. This book discusses that state-building in Sri Lanka is centred on the struggle for hegemony amidst a kind of politics that rejects individual and group equality, opposes the social integration of marginalised groups and appeals to narrow, fearful and xenophobic tendencies among the majority population and minorities alike. It answers the pressing questions of - How do the dynamics of intra-Sinhalese class relations and Sinhalese politics influence the trajectories of post-colonial state-building? What tensions emerge over time, between Sinhalese hegemony-building and wider state-building? How did these tensions manifest in majority and minority relationships?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-10
Mått160 x 236 x 27 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSouth Asia in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor280
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009199247

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'Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits An Uneasy Hegemony: Politics of State-building and Struggles for Justice in Sri Lanka is a welcome addition to the growing body of new scholarly literature on Sri Lanka' politics that has emerged after the end of the protracted ethnic war. The war and violence that engulfed the entire society for over three decades had also shaped and defined the possibilities as well as the limits of the agenda and orientations of the country's social science scholarship for some time. Being able to move out of the shadow of the conflict, Jayasundara-Smits reframes and then re-examines the problematic of state building in post-colonial Sri Lanka by focusing on the connections between the hegemony building processes and the politics of the state-building project. The book provides refreshingly new material as well as interpretive insights into the inevitable tensions between the two parallel projects, hegemony building and state building.' Jayadeva Uyangoda, Professor Emeritus in Political Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka