James Brow
Biographic Data
| ID | 105252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Brow |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Brow |
| SIGNATURE | BROW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction
Utopia's New-Found Space
The influence of William Morris, even here.'Stephen Potter, One-UpmanshipIntroductionIn 1978 the village of Kukulewa, in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), was selected for development under the Gam Udava (Village Awakening) program launched by the recently elected UNP (United National Party) government. Five years later, in 1983, I spent nine months in Kukulewa, studying the changes that had taken place since I had first …
Demons and Development
Demons and Development
In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As this occurs, instances of demonic have been known to take place incidents that may both express the conflicts that result and attempt to resolve them. When residents of the village of Kukulewa were promised sixty new houses, a factional rift arose between those who benefited from the project and those who did not. The breach between wha…
Distorted Priorities in Sri Lanka
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
A Sinhala Village in Time of Trouble
The Incorporation of a Marginal Community within the Sinhalese Nation
Escalating conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils has produced a polarization and homogenization of ethnic identities that threatens the reproduction of a distinct sense of community among marginal groups such as the Veddas, the reputed descendants of Sri Lanka's aboriginal population. This paper begins by describing a state-sponsored ritual of development that proclaimed the incorporation of the Anuradhapura Veddas within the Sinhalese nation. It…
In Pursuit of Hegemony
This paper analyzes the hegemonic state of play between the local culture of a village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka, and the dominant ideology of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. It focuses on a government housing project that was started in the village in 1978. This project provided numerous opportunities for the authoritative propagation of the dominant ideology, but the manner of its implementation violated local cultural norms and cause…
Class Formation and Ideological Practice
An adequate understanding of the complex connections between changes in the social relations of production and changes in the bases of group formation demands an historical approach in which consciousness and its ideological products are viewed dynamically, not as the mechanically determined superstructural reflections of material relations but as an active and constituent components of everyday social life. The concepts required for such an anal…
Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura
The Ideology and Practice of Share-Cropping Tenancy in Kukulewa and Pul Eliya
Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura
Contributions to Asian Studies. Vol. 9
Population, Land and Structural Change in Sri Lanka and Thailand
The changing structure of appropriations in Vedda agriculture
An understanding of the processes whereby tribal and traditional peasant communities have been increasingly drawn into national and even global economies demands detailed analysis of the changes in the form and magnitude of appropriations to which the output of direct producers is liable, and also of associated changes in the structure of class and status relations. A quantified account of the appropriations made during one recent year of product…
The Incorporation of a Marginal Community within the Sinhalese Nation
Escalating conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils has produced a polarization and homogenization of ethnic identities that threatens the reproduction of a distinct sense of community among marginal groups such as the Veddas, the reputed descendants of Sri Lanka's aboriginal population. This paper begins by describing a state-sponsored ritual of development that proclaimed the incorporation of the Anuradhapura Veddas within the Sinhalese nation. It…
A Sinhala Village in Time of Trouble
In Pursuit of Hegemony
This paper analyzes the hegemonic state of play between the local culture of a village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka, and the dominant ideology of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. It focuses on a government housing project that was started in the village in 1978. This project provided numerous opportunities for the authoritative propagation of the dominant ideology, but the manner of its implementation violated local cultural norms and cause…
Demons and Development
In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As this occurs, instances of demonic have been known to take place incidents that may both express the conflicts that result and attempt to resolve them. When residents of the village of Kukulewa were promised sixty new houses, a factional rift arose between those who benefited from the project and those who did not. The breach between wha…
Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura
Utopia's New-Found Space
The influence of William Morris, even here.'Stephen Potter, One-UpmanshipIntroductionIn 1978 the village of Kukulewa, in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), was selected for development under the Gam Udava (Village Awakening) program launched by the recently elected UNP (United National Party) government. Five years later, in 1983, I spent nine months in Kukulewa, studying the changes that had taken place since I had first …
Class Formation and Ideological Practice
An adequate understanding of the complex connections between changes in the social relations of production and changes in the bases of group formation demands an historical approach in which consciousness and its ideological products are viewed dynamically, not as the mechanically determined superstructural reflections of material relations but as an active and constituent components of everyday social life. The concepts required for such an anal…
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
The changing structure of appropriations in Vedda agriculture
An understanding of the processes whereby tribal and traditional peasant communities have been increasingly drawn into national and even global economies demands detailed analysis of the changes in the form and magnitude of appropriations to which the output of direct producers is liable, and also of associated changes in the structure of class and status relations. A quantified account of the appropriations made during one recent year of product…
The Ideology and Practice of Share-Cropping Tenancy in Kukulewa and Pul Eliya
Population, Land and Structural Change in Sri Lanka and Thailand
The changing structure of appropriations in Vedda agriculture
An understanding of the processes whereby tribal and traditional peasant communities have been increasingly drawn into national and even global economies demands detailed analysis of the changes in the form and magnitude of appropriations to which the output of direct producers is liable, and also of associated changes in the structure of class and status relations. A quantified account of the appropriations made during one recent year of product…
Contributions to Asian Studies. Vol. 9
Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura
The Ideology and Practice of Share-Cropping Tenancy in Kukulewa and Pul Eliya
Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura
Class Formation and Ideological Practice
An adequate understanding of the complex connections between changes in the social relations of production and changes in the bases of group formation demands an historical approach in which consciousness and its ideological products are viewed dynamically, not as the mechanically determined superstructural reflections of material relations but as an active and constituent components of everyday social life. The concepts required for such an anal…
In Pursuit of Hegemony
This paper analyzes the hegemonic state of play between the local culture of a village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka, and the dominant ideology of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. It focuses on a government housing project that was started in the village in 1978. This project provided numerous opportunities for the authoritative propagation of the dominant ideology, but the manner of its implementation violated local cultural norms and cause…
The Incorporation of a Marginal Community within the Sinhalese Nation
Escalating conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils has produced a polarization and homogenization of ethnic identities that threatens the reproduction of a distinct sense of community among marginal groups such as the Veddas, the reputed descendants of Sri Lanka's aboriginal population. This paper begins by describing a state-sponsored ritual of development that proclaimed the incorporation of the Anuradhapura Veddas within the Sinhalese nation. It…
A Sinhala Village in Time of Trouble
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
Distorted Priorities in Sri Lanka
Demons and Development
In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As this occurs, instances of demonic have been known to take place incidents that may both express the conflicts that result and attempt to resolve them. When residents of the village of Kukulewa were promised sixty new houses, a factional rift arose between those who benefited from the project and those who did not. The breach between wha…
Demons and Development
Utopia's New-Found Space
The influence of William Morris, even here.'Stephen Potter, One-UpmanshipIntroductionIn 1978 the village of Kukulewa, in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), was selected for development under the Gam Udava (Village Awakening) program launched by the recently elected UNP (United National Party) government. Five years later, in 1983, I spent nine months in Kukulewa, studying the changes that had taken place since I had first …
Introduction
Geography (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Sri lanka (10 works) · History (9 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Socioeconomics (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works)