Taking Social Development Seriously

The Experience of Sri Lanka

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This work presents a systematic historical and analytical understanding of Sri Lanka′s social development. Instead of merely focussing on economic yardsticks, it studies the country′s development in the conceptual framework of social policy, with an emphasis on the way current institutions reflect the impact of previous political conflicts and struggles. The book critiques the country′s social policy from the perspectives of the Western theories of ′welfare state′ and development studies. It also provides valuable insights into the issues of modernization and democratization in colonial settings by analysing the distinctive nature of the Sri Lankan colonial experience. The book also looks at the future prospects of development in Sri Lanka in view of the unfolding of the complex social and political milieu following the end of the twenty-five-year-old civil war in the country.This book will be a seminal reference resource for students and researchers working in the fields of development studies, colonial studies, South Asian studies, sociology, history and political science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-07-07
Mått139 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagSAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
ISBN9788132104650

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Laksiri Jayasuriya, currently Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London. Previously he was the Foundation Professor of Sociology and Social Welfare at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In Australia he held the Foundation Chair of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Western Australia. His publications include Welfarism and Politics in Sri Lanka (2000), Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia (1997), The Asianization of Australia? Some Facts about the Myths (co-author, 1999), The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka (2005) and The Legacies of White Australia (co-editor, 2002).

Foreword James MidgleyIntroduction1: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL POLICYChanging Ideas of Social PolicyRethinking Social DevelopmentMarshall and Citizenship Theorising2: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKAThe Formative Phase of Social Development in Sri LankaWelfarism and Democratisation in the Late Colonial State (1931-1948)Consolidation of the Welfare State3: The END OF AN ERA AND REFRAMING WELFARISMRetreat from the Welfare StateReclaiming Social Democracy: Charting a ′Third Way′ for Sri LankaPostscript: Taking Stock after the Fall of Sri Lanka′s Berlin WallAfterword by Nimal SanderatneReferencesIndex

This is a scholarly book of singular importance. It is also a powerful statement of timely significance for a deeply conflicted society that has just endured a quarter century of bloody civil war—Sri Lanka in 2010.Professor Laksiri Jayasuriya has achieved that double success through a rare capacity to address social theory via a comparative lens, coupled with a deep appreciation of how past and present interact...Sri Lanka may have had no Nelson Mandela to bring a statesmanship of Reconciliation, but it still has the wise reflections of this deep thinking and humane scholar.