Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises

The hookworm epidemic on the plantations in colonial Sri Lanka.

The history of disease and health in colonial Sri Lanka has been largely ignored. Historians of colonial economic and social policies in that country have produced a deluge of materials without mentioning the impact of colonial labour policy on the health of the indigenous people.' Meanwhile, even those who have written on the history of medicine in Sri Lanka have not fully accounted for coloni...

The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy, and The identity politics of peacebuilding: Civil society in war-torn Sri Lanka

Reclaiming reconciliation through community education for the Muslims and Tamils of post-war Jaffna, Sri Lanka

This paper explores the possibilities and challenges for ethno-religious reconciliation through secondary school education in post-war Sri Lanka, with a specific focus on the Muslim and Tamil communities in the Northern city of Jaffna. In doing so, we position our paper within the growing field of 'education, conflict and emergencies' of which there has been a growing body of literature discuss...

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

Suicide in Sri Lanka: Past, Present and Future Transformations