Laavanyan M Ratnapalan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 199624 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laavanyan M Ratnapalan |
| NOMBRES | Laavanyan M |
| APELLIDO | Ratnapalan |
| FIRMA | RATNAPALAN L M |
| AFILIACIONES | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3442-5918 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism
Spatial Continuities? The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Meetings, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Diplomacy of South Asian Decolonisation, 1944–1965
The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ (subsequently Heads of Government) Meetings or Conferences were the flagship events of the New Commonwealth in the two decades after the Second World War and the beginning of formal independence and decolonisation in South Asia. The post-war Commonwealth leadership sought to maintain unity on key international issues, which served British strategic interests, at least in the view of British leaders, officials, an…
Frederic Rogers, Oxford Movement Ecclesiology, and British Imperial Thought
The article aims to show the value of taking ecclesiology – the theology of the church – into account in the study of British imperial ideology by describing how Anglican intra-ecclesiological debates shaped mid-nineteenth-century discourse about the British Empire. It highlights the impact of the Oxford Movement on the mind of the British colonial administrator Sir Frederic Rogers, Lord Blachford (1811-1889), by revealing the connections between…
Bound ‘Together by the Golden Thread of a Common Tradition’? Decolonization, Identity, and the Legacies of Empire in British-South Asian Relations
It is commonly argued that, between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, there was a shift from cooperation in the formerly ‘British’ Commonwealth to a set of national priorities determined by the more realist considerations of the Cold War. Accounts of South Asian decolonization and relations with Britain in this period understandably tend to highlight the political and cultural nationalism espoused by the leaders of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. …
Ideologies of the New Commonwealth
South Asian leaders shaped the Commonwealth’s reorientation from an association grounded in British-derived ideals of representative government to an international organisation that expressed multiracial solidarity in the face of ideological fragmentation. This article fills a crucial historiographical gap by explaining how ideas motivated the new Asian members of the expanded and transformed Commonwealth. Balanced historical interpretation must …
This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”
The history of nineteenth‐century missions provide a fruitful field to explore the development of religious thought and practice in a secular setting. This article shows how the religious views of the clergyman and educator Sereno Edwards Bishop, born in Hawai‘i of American missionary parents, were shaped by his childhood among the mission community in Hawai‘i and by his American college education. These instilled in him a liberal approach to the…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888–1894." The Journal of Pacific History, 55(1), pp. 137–138
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Science and Politics in the Hawaiian Kingdom
The growth in studies of Indigenous responses to the gradual foreign control and American annexation of the Hawaiian Islands has provided an important corrective to dominant trends in earlier Hawaiian historiography, but there has been comparatively little recent work on the attitudes and values of those identified as colonizers. In particular, how Western ideas were understood and appropriated within the context of Hawaiian politics is not well …
Race and Redemption
"Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920." The Journal of Pacific History, 53(4), pp. 526–527
Why Disgrace the Commonwealth?’ Ceylonese Communalism, the Search for Global Influence and the Politics of a Transnational Organisation, 1948–65
This article examines the progress of the commonwealth as a forum for political action by Ceylonese in the first two decades after the nation’s independence by focusing on the debate over Tamil political rights. Significantly, this domestic conflict intensified during a crucial phase in the commonwealth’s transition, from being essentially a members’ club consisting of Britain and the settler dominions to a multilateral organisation led by newly …
Britain and the Politics of Ceylon, 1948–1961
This article traces the British relationship with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the decade and a half after independence. The first part of this article shows how, within the context of the arrangements made at independence, the events of the years 1956–9 under the premiership of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike marked an important turning point in Britain's political and strategic relationship with the island. Then in the second part, British diplomatic records…
Before and After 1983
This paper discusses the material effects of the theorisation of the contemporary Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora around the 1983 Colombo riots. In the complicated aftermath of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, it is necessary to rethink the way in which diasporic history has been constructed in order to factor in its multiple dimensions and underlying dynamics. By critically foregrounding the key literature on the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora,…
Erwin Straus and the pathic
This paper details the significance of the ‘pathic’ mode of sensing in the work of Erwin Straus, through a consideration of its origins, etymology, and relationship with the research of his close contemporaries. The ‘pathic’ describes ‘the immediately present, sensually vivid, still pre-conceptual communication we have with appearances’. Straus came to a coherent understanding of its importance through his critique of Pavlov’s laboratory experime…
Sereno Bishop, Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘Americanism’ in Hawai‘i
The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Hawaiian Islands from January–June 1889, in the middle of one of the most turbulent periods in its history. While staying on the islands he became associated with King Kalakaua's royalist faction, which was then involved in a struggle for power against the Reform Party, whose members were responsible for leading Hawai‘i first to republican rule (1893) and then to American takeover in 1898. Th…
Memories of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka among immigrant Tamils in the UK
This article contributes to recent studies on the relationship between ethnicity and memory in the formation of transnational communities. The focus of the article is migrant Tamils' memories of violence in Sri Lanka in 1958, in the aftermath of an act declaring Sinhala to be the sole language of administration in the country. The ways in which past violence is remembered by this overlooked older generation helps in understanding the particular i…
E. B. Tylor and the Problem of Primitive Culture
Edward Burnett Tylor’s (1832–1917) theory of survivals, or elements of the “primitive” or archaic past that continued to play an active part in the beliefs of the present day, hallmarks the Victorian effort to isolate and display what were thought to be the most developed features of the contemporary world. However, in focusing on what was outmoded in society, the theory of survivals brought primitive beliefs into an uncomfortable relationship wi…
Nā Kahu
Nā Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and Abroad, 1820–1900." The Journal of Pacific History, 55(4), pp. 551–552
E. B. Tylor and the Problem of Primitive Culture
Edward Burnett Tylor’s (1832–1917) theory of survivals, or elements of the “primitive” or archaic past that continued to play an active part in the beliefs of the present day, hallmarks the Victorian effort to isolate and display what were thought to be the most developed features of the contemporary world. However, in focusing on what was outmoded in society, the theory of survivals brought primitive beliefs into an uncomfortable relationship wi…
Memories of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka among immigrant Tamils in the UK
This article contributes to recent studies on the relationship between ethnicity and memory in the formation of transnational communities. The focus of the article is migrant Tamils' memories of violence in Sri Lanka in 1958, in the aftermath of an act declaring Sinhala to be the sole language of administration in the country. The ways in which past violence is remembered by this overlooked older generation helps in understanding the particular i…
Why Disgrace the Commonwealth?’ Ceylonese Communalism, the Search for Global Influence and the Politics of a Transnational Organisation, 1948–65
This article examines the progress of the commonwealth as a forum for political action by Ceylonese in the first two decades after the nation’s independence by focusing on the debate over Tamil political rights. Significantly, this domestic conflict intensified during a crucial phase in the commonwealth’s transition, from being essentially a members’ club consisting of Britain and the settler dominions to a multilateral organisation led by newly …
Britain and the Politics of Ceylon, 1948–1961
This article traces the British relationship with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the decade and a half after independence. The first part of this article shows how, within the context of the arrangements made at independence, the events of the years 1956–9 under the premiership of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike marked an important turning point in Britain's political and strategic relationship with the island. Then in the second part, British diplomatic records…
Before and After 1983
This paper discusses the material effects of the theorisation of the contemporary Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora around the 1983 Colombo riots. In the complicated aftermath of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, it is necessary to rethink the way in which diasporic history has been constructed in order to factor in its multiple dimensions and underlying dynamics. By critically foregrounding the key literature on the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora,…
E. B. Tylor and the Problem of Primitive Culture
Edward Burnett Tylor’s (1832–1917) theory of survivals, or elements of the “primitive” or archaic past that continued to play an active part in the beliefs of the present day, hallmarks the Victorian effort to isolate and display what were thought to be the most developed features of the contemporary world. However, in focusing on what was outmoded in society, the theory of survivals brought primitive beliefs into an uncomfortable relationship wi…
Erwin Straus and the pathic
This paper details the significance of the ‘pathic’ mode of sensing in the work of Erwin Straus, through a consideration of its origins, etymology, and relationship with the research of his close contemporaries. The ‘pathic’ describes ‘the immediately present, sensually vivid, still pre-conceptual communication we have with appearances’. Straus came to a coherent understanding of its importance through his critique of Pavlov’s laboratory experime…
Sereno Bishop, Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘Americanism’ in Hawai‘i
The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Hawaiian Islands from January–June 1889, in the middle of one of the most turbulent periods in its history. While staying on the islands he became associated with King Kalakaua's royalist faction, which was then involved in a struggle for power against the Reform Party, whose members were responsible for leading Hawai‘i first to republican rule (1893) and then to American takeover in 1898. Th…
Memories of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka among immigrant Tamils in the UK
This article contributes to recent studies on the relationship between ethnicity and memory in the formation of transnational communities. The focus of the article is migrant Tamils' memories of violence in Sri Lanka in 1958, in the aftermath of an act declaring Sinhala to be the sole language of administration in the country. The ways in which past violence is remembered by this overlooked older generation helps in understanding the particular i…
Before and After 1983
This paper discusses the material effects of the theorisation of the contemporary Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora around the 1983 Colombo riots. In the complicated aftermath of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, it is necessary to rethink the way in which diasporic history has been constructed in order to factor in its multiple dimensions and underlying dynamics. By critically foregrounding the key literature on the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora,…
Britain and the Politics of Ceylon, 1948–1961
This article traces the British relationship with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the decade and a half after independence. The first part of this article shows how, within the context of the arrangements made at independence, the events of the years 1956–9 under the premiership of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike marked an important turning point in Britain's political and strategic relationship with the island. Then in the second part, British diplomatic records…
Why Disgrace the Commonwealth?’ Ceylonese Communalism, the Search for Global Influence and the Politics of a Transnational Organisation, 1948–65
This article examines the progress of the commonwealth as a forum for political action by Ceylonese in the first two decades after the nation’s independence by focusing on the debate over Tamil political rights. Significantly, this domestic conflict intensified during a crucial phase in the commonwealth’s transition, from being essentially a members’ club consisting of Britain and the settler dominions to a multilateral organisation led by newly …
Science and Politics in the Hawaiian Kingdom
The growth in studies of Indigenous responses to the gradual foreign control and American annexation of the Hawaiian Islands has provided an important corrective to dominant trends in earlier Hawaiian historiography, but there has been comparatively little recent work on the attitudes and values of those identified as colonizers. In particular, how Western ideas were understood and appropriated within the context of Hawaiian politics is not well …
Race and Redemption
"Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920." The Journal of Pacific History, 53(4), pp. 526–527
This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”
The history of nineteenth‐century missions provide a fruitful field to explore the development of religious thought and practice in a secular setting. This article shows how the religious views of the clergyman and educator Sereno Edwards Bishop, born in Hawai‘i of American missionary parents, were shaped by his childhood among the mission community in Hawai‘i and by his American college education. These instilled in him a liberal approach to the…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888–1894." The Journal of Pacific History, 55(1), pp. 137–138
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Ideologies of the New Commonwealth
South Asian leaders shaped the Commonwealth’s reorientation from an association grounded in British-derived ideals of representative government to an international organisation that expressed multiracial solidarity in the face of ideological fragmentation. This article fills a crucial historiographical gap by explaining how ideas motivated the new Asian members of the expanded and transformed Commonwealth. Balanced historical interpretation must …
Bound ‘Together by the Golden Thread of a Common Tradition’? Decolonization, Identity, and the Legacies of Empire in British-South Asian Relations
It is commonly argued that, between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, there was a shift from cooperation in the formerly ‘British’ Commonwealth to a set of national priorities determined by the more realist considerations of the Cold War. Accounts of South Asian decolonization and relations with Britain in this period understandably tend to highlight the political and cultural nationalism espoused by the leaders of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. …
Frederic Rogers, Oxford Movement Ecclesiology, and British Imperial Thought
The article aims to show the value of taking ecclesiology – the theology of the church – into account in the study of British imperial ideology by describing how Anglican intra-ecclesiological debates shaped mid-nineteenth-century discourse about the British Empire. It highlights the impact of the Oxford Movement on the mind of the British colonial administrator Sir Frederic Rogers, Lord Blachford (1811-1889), by revealing the connections between…
Spatial Continuities? The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Meetings, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Diplomacy of South Asian Decolonisation, 1944–1965
The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ (subsequently Heads of Government) Meetings or Conferences were the flagship events of the New Commonwealth in the two decades after the Second World War and the beginning of formal independence and decolonisation in South Asia. The post-war Commonwealth leadership sought to maintain unity on key international issues, which served British strategic interests, at least in the view of British leaders, officials, an…
Nā Kahu
Nā Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and Abroad, 1820–1900." The Journal of Pacific History, 55(4), pp. 551–552
John Henry Newman, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Languages of Liberalism
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