Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood
著者
書誌事項
Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood
(Postcolonialism across the disciplines / series editors, Graham Huggan, Andrew Thompson, 12)
Liverpool University Press, 2013
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Sacred Modernity argues how everyday non-secular experiences of the natural world in Sri Lanka perpetuate ethno-religious identitarian narratives. It demonstrates the relationships between spaces of nature and environment and an ongoing aesthetic and spatial constitution of power and the political in which Theravada Buddhism is centrally implicated. To do this, the book works consecutively through two in-depth case studies, both of which are prominent sites through which Sri Lankan nature and environment are commodified: first, the country's most famous national park, Ruhuna (Yala), and second, its post-1950s modernist environmental architecture, 'tropical modernism'. By engaging these sites, the book reveals how commonplace historical understandings as well as commonplace material negotiations of the seductions of Sri Lankan nature are never far from the continued production of a post-independent national identity marked ethnically as Sinhalese and religiously as Buddhist. In the Sri Lankan context this minoritizes Tamil, Muslim and Christian non-Sinhala difference in the nation-state's natural, environmental and historical order of things.
To make this argument, the book writes against the grain of Eurocentric social scientific understandings of the concepts 'nature' and 'religion'. It argues that these concepts and their implicit binary mobilizations of nature/culture and the sacred/secular respectively, struggle to make visible the pervasive ways that Buddhism - thought instead as a 'structure of feeling' or aesthetics - simultaneously naturalizes and ethnicizes the fabric of the national in contemporary Sri Lanka.
Sacred Modernity shows the care and postcolonial methodological sensitivity required to understand how 'nature' and 'religion' might be thought through non-EuroAmerican field contexts, especially those in South Asia.
目次
1. Introduction
2. Sacred Modernity: nature, religion and the politics of aesthetics
Part I Ruhuna (Yala) National Park
2. Landscape, Nature, Nationhood: an 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 'tropical modern' architecture
6. Architecting One-ness: fluid spaces/sacred modernity
7. Over-Determinations: architecture, text, politics
8. Conclusion: Sri Lankan nature as problem space
Bibliography
Index
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