Society and Space traces the historical construction of social space in Sri Lanka. Utilizing a world-systems perspective, landscape interpretation, and theories of colonial architecture and urbanism, Nihal Perera looks at colonized, decolonized, and postcolonial Sri Lanka through the lens of successive spatial transformations. The author skillfully reveals the importance of construction, occupation, and the fashioning of territories, urban landscapes, and built forms, pointing out the interconnections and meanings of these spatial aspects as part of changing political, economic, and cultural systems.This book treats space and the built environment of Sri Lanka’s place in the world system at different points in history. Yet, it also maintains an awareness of specific issues of local politics and culture. Writing from a position in the “postcolonial periphery,” Perera argues that the politics governing the construction of space and spatial structures is of primary importance for those seeking to understand a particular society and culture.
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Nihal Perera is assistant professor of urban planning at Ball State University.
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Taking over Colombo in the early sixteenth century, the Portuguese brought the island they called Ceilao (English, Ceylon) and its inhabitants into direct contact with south-western Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
economic command center, critical vernaculars, colonial urban development, spatial revolution, parliament complex, colonial port city, fort area, tropical architecture, colonial port cities, colonial urbanism, spatial constitution, tooth relic, seaborne empire, plantation complex, colonial community, architectural modernism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean, Cinnamon Gardens, New York, Ceylon Under British Rule, Nuwara Eliya, Third World, United States, New Delhi, Mahaweli Project, British Empire, United Nations, Geoffrey Bawa, Million Houses Program, Non-Aligned Movement, Power of Place, Cold War, Galle Face, Legislative Council, Michael Roberts, Centenary Volume, Economic Review, Ulrik Plesner, Basil Blackwell, British Ceylon New!
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economic command center, critical vernaculars, colonial urban development, spatial revolution, parliament complex, colonial port city, fort area, tropical architecture, colonial port cities, colonial urbanism, spatial constitution, tooth relic, seaborne empire, plantation complex, colonial community, architectural modernism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean, Cinnamon Gardens, New York, Ceylon Under British Rule, Nuwara Eliya, Third World, United States, New Delhi, Mahaweli Project, British Empire, United Nations, Geoffrey Bawa, Million Houses Program, Non-Aligned Movement, Power of Place, Cold War, Galle Face, Legislative Council, Michael Roberts, Centenary Volume, Economic Review, Ulrik Plesner, Basil Blackwell, British Ceylon New!
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- A History of Sri Lanka by K.M.De Silva on 9 pages
- Sri Lanka (Population profiles) by Lakshmi Perera on 9 pages
- Sri Lanka (Visitor's Guides) by Tony Astle on 7 pages
- Ceylon Under the British by G.C. Mendis on 6 pages
- Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality (5th Edition) by Colin Flint on 5 pages
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- Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century (GeoJournal Library) by Ashok K. Dutt on page 65
- Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism (Architext) by Jyoti Hosagrahar in Back Matter
- The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict (Routledge Series in Federal Studies) by John Coakley on page 198
- Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia (Architext) by Abidin Kusno in Back Matter
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