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Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Preface

Introduction
Preface
I. B. Watson
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Part I: Political economy of the conflicts

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Peace: Sri Lanka's impossible dream?
Bernard Swan
Pages: 3-21
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Territorial spaces and national identities: Representations of Sri Lanka
Nihal Perera
Pages: 23-50
Published online: 08 May 2007
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The international dimension of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
V. Nithiyanandam
Pages: 51-82
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Ethnic conflict and the state in Sri Lanka: A possible solution?
Laksiri Fernando
Pages: 83-96
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The growth of Tamil paramilitary nationalisms: Sinhala Chauvinism and Tamil responses
Purnaka L. de Silva
Pages: 97-118
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Internationalisation of the Tamil conflict (and its implications)
Rohan Gunaratna
Pages: 119-152
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Part II: Story of the conflicts through the narratives

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Reasons for violence: A preliminary ethnographic account of the LTTE
Margaret Trawick
Pages: 153-180
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Wearing a dead man's jacket: State symbols in troubled places
Michele Ruth Gamburd
Pages: 181-194
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Suite for Kokodicholai, Sri Lanka
Marilyn Krysl
Pages: 195-200
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Tigers and temples: The politics of nationalist and non‐modern violence in Sri Lanka
Mark P. Whitaker
Pages: 201-214
Published online: 08 May 2007
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The changing Amman: notes on the injury of war in Eastern Sri Lanka
Patricia Lawrence
Pages: 215-236
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Tamils and Muslims in the shadow of war: Schism or continuity?
Dennis B. McGilvray
Pages: 239-253
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Part III: Costs of the conflicts

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Determinants of military expenditure in Sri Lanka
P. Edirisuriya
Pages: 255-267
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The impact of the civil war on tourism and the regional economy
Jayatilleke S. Bandara
Pages: 269-279
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Part IV: The conflicts in different perspectives

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Conflict as a catalyst: The changing politics of the Sri Lankan Muslims
Meghan O'Sullivan
Pages: 281-308
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Denigration of the Sinhala people
H. L. D. Mahindapale
Pages: 309-330
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Economic liberalisation, social class and ethnicity: Emerging trends and conflicts
Siri Hettige
Pages: 331-358
Published online: 08 May 2007
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Post‐independent political conflicts in Sri Lanka: Elites, ethnicity, and class contradictions
Siri Gamage
Pages: 359-395
Published online: 08 May 2007
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