Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive overview on issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country's contemporary polity, economy, and sociality.

Part 1: Introduction If I was president, Sarah Kabir; Introduction: Situating Sri Lanka, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Amjad Saleem Part 2: Nations and Nationalism 1. Island Imaginaries: Insularity, repetition, and the spatial politics of the national, Tariq Jazeel; 2. Authoritarian Politics and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Survey, Rajni Gamage; 3. Nationalism, Conflict and Power-Sharing, Bart Klem; 4. Centring Conflict: Contemporary Sri Lanka in Perspective, Shamara Wettimuny Part 3: Politics, State and Institutions  5. Defining Sri Lanka's Identity: Reflections on key constitutional and the legal moments, Bhavani Fonseka and Luwie Niranjan; 6. Imagining the Nation: A critical overview of Sinhala Nationalism and its cultural coordinates, Harshana Rambukwella; 7. Eastern Muslims of Sri Lanka: Developing an Identity Consciousness, Abu Bakar Rameez & M.A.M Fowzer; 8. Transitional Justice: State of Play in Sri Lanka, Farah Mihlar; 9. Contemporary Gender Activism: Engaging the Law and the State, Kaushlya Ariyaratne and Kiran Grewal Part 4: Economy and Political Economy 10. Sri Lanka's Foreign Debt Crisis: Deep Roots? Umesh Moramudali; 11. The Sri Lankan Economy: Hope, Despair and Prospects, Prema-Chandra Athukorala; 12. Gender inequality in Sri Lanka's Economy: Persistent Challenges, Dileni Gunewardena; 13. Unveiling Margins: Women, Caste, Class and Post-War Development in Sri Lanka's North and East, Narayani Sritharan; 14. Higher education in Sri Lanka: Key Topics, Kaushalya Perera Part 5: Work and Life 15. Informality, Masculinity, and Agglomeration Imaginaries, Nipesh Narayanan; 16. The work and lives of agricultural workers, Cinthya M. Caron; 17. The Gendered Political Economy of Work in Post-War Sri Lanka, Jayanthi Lingam; 18. Work and life of Sri Lankan garment factory workers: A Gendered Perspective, Shyamain Wickramasinghe; 19. Microfinance, debt and indebtedness of rural sector workers in Sri Lanka, Nedha de Silva & Amali Welagadara Part 6: Environment and Environmental Politics 20. Following currents: Oceanic and littoral Sri Lanka, Rapti Siriwardena-De Zoysa; 21. A political ecology of Sri Lanka's urban and regional wetlands, Missaka Hettiarachchi; 22. Sri Lanka's Energy Transition: One step forward, Two steps back, MeeNilankco Theiventhran; 23. Environmental protection in Sri Lanka: A Critical Legal Approach, Kalana Senaratne; 24. Ecological States: Nature, Militarization, and Nationalism in Sri Lanka, Vivian Choi; 25. Sri Lanka's environmental history, Sujit Sivasundaram Part 7: Society, Social Systems and Culture 26. Public Health System of Sri Lanka: Past, Present and Future, Shashika Bandara; 27. Politicising 'the Virtual': Examining the Internet on the Intersections of Gender, and Sexuality in Sri Lanka, Senel Wanniarachchi  and Zahrah Rizwan; 28. Feminist pathways and political possibilities in Sri Lankan plantation studies, Mythri Jegathesan; 29. Caste in Contemporary Sri Lanka, Dominic Essler; 30. Dynamics of low-income settlements in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Alikhan Mohideen Part 8: Moment of flux, looking ahead 31. Covid-19: Sri Lanka's Moral Test, Santhushya Fernando; 32. People in the Palace, Dinesha Samaratane; 33. After Aragalaya: Moving beyond the status quo? Oliver Walton; 34. Consolidating a Dangerous Consensus, Kusum Wijetilleke; 35. The 'dreary pillage of privacy', talking economics in Colombo's tower blocks, Michael Collyer; Index