Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / / Tariq Jazeel
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| Autore: |
Jazeel Tariq
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| Titolo: |
Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / / Tariq Jazeel
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, England : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.54095493 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nationalism - Sri Lanka |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; List of Map and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Sacred Modernity: Nature, Religion, and the Politics of Aesthetics; Part I: Ruhuna (Yala) National Park ; 2 Landscape, Nature, Nationhood: A Historical Geography of Ruhuna(Yala) National Park; 3 Inscription and Experience: The Politics and Aesthetics of Nature Tourism ; 4 Political Geographies: Promoting, Contesting, and Purifying Nature; Part II: Tropical Modern Architecture ; 5 Built Space, Environment, Modernism: (Re)reading 'TropicalModern' Architecture; 6 Architecting One-ness: Fluid Spaces/Sacred Modernity |
| 7 Over-determinations: Architecture, Text, PoliticsConclusion: Sri Lankan Nature as Problem Space; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sacred modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-830-X |
| 1-84631-997-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464211103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines