Neloufer De Mel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1148940 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neloufer De Mel |
| PRENOMES | Neloufer |
| SOBRENOME | De Mel |
| ASSINATURA | DE MEL N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Colombo |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The 'Cultural Life' of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)
This forum brings together reflections on Sri Lanka’s recent political struggles (aragalya) that ousted the incumbent president, and yet ended in political stasis. These reflections provide the space to think through what makes up the ‘cultural life’ of democracy in aragalya and beyond. The trope of the ‘cultural life’ of democracy enables these contributions to sketch an alternative way of theorising democracy as ‘actually existing politics’
Actants and Fault Lines
This article provides a contextual analysis of Janakaraliya (‘Theatre of the People’), a theatre company acclaimed for its excellence in theatre for social justice and peace building in Sri Lanka. It discusses the governing conditions that enable its practice and evaluates its impact, whether this be the biopower of the state and non-state actors during periods of political violence, donor funding frameworks, or the Janakaraliya archive itself as…
In the Shadow of Transitional Justice
Locating authenticity- The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) publishes social science articles on topics relevant to Sri Lanka in particular and South Asia in general. The journal also has a website at http://www.nsf.gov.lk
Two homes, refugees in both’
Policies that address post-war displacement often reflect temporal linearity as transitional periods during which they are developed imply a shift from one situation to another. These policies obscure complexities experienced by local communities for whom displacement is ongoing and interminable. This essay applies Sri Lanka’s National Policy on Durable Solutions for Conflict-Affected Displacement (NPDSCAD) to the case of Northern Muslims who wer…
Pathways between childhood trauma, intimate partner violence, and harsh parenting
BACKGROUND: Although childhood trauma and violence against women are global public health issues, few population-based data from low-income and middle-income countries exist about the links between them. We present data from the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, exploring the pathways between different forms of childhood trauma and violence against women. METHODS: In this multicountry study, we interviewed multis…
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka
Gendering the New Security Paradigm in Sri Lanka
This article points to the significant military turn that has taken place in Sri Lanka following the armed conflict between the Sri Lanka government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It is particularly concerned with the impacts on gender relations and how the lines between women's insecurity and militarised masculinity have been redrawn and reinforced. It argues that these gender relations can be seen in sharp relief in the…
Militarizing Sri Lanka
Constituting Martial Virtue: The Processes of Militarization in Sri Lanka Marketing War, Marketing Peace: Mediating Global Capital and National Security Staging Pain: The Disabled Soldier and the Butterflies Theatre Allegories of War: The Politics of Childhood, Mourning and Melancholia in the Tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden Figure of Speech: The Female Suicide Bomber, Censorship and the Literary-Cinematic Site The Promise of the Archive: Memo…
Between the War and the Sea
This paper looks at the linkages between the Asian tsunami which devastated Sri Lanka in December 2004 and the nation's ongoing armed conflict, from the perspective of women's experiences of these critical events. Public discourses, while politicizing the natural disaster represented by the tsunami, have tended to naturalize the armed conflict and the even larger toll on life of the ethnic struggle. A sustained process of militarization in Sri La…
Body Politics
The suicide bomber has been one of the most potent weapons of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in its 19-year separatist armed struggle against the Sri Lankan state. Of the 217 suicide attacks to date, 46 have been by women. This paper will analyse the representations of the LTTE female suicide bomber in literature, propa ganda, public debate and state security practice. It will argue that a discourse of morality already attenuating the act o…
Myth as history
Body Politics
The suicide bomber has been one of the most potent weapons of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in its 19-year separatist armed struggle against the Sri Lankan state. Of the 217 suicide attacks to date, 46 have been by women. This paper will analyse the representations of the LTTE female suicide bomber in literature, propa ganda, public debate and state security practice. It will argue that a discourse of morality already attenuating the act o…
Between the War and the Sea
This paper looks at the linkages between the Asian tsunami which devastated Sri Lanka in December 2004 and the nation's ongoing armed conflict, from the perspective of women's experiences of these critical events. Public discourses, while politicizing the natural disaster represented by the tsunami, have tended to naturalize the armed conflict and the even larger toll on life of the ethnic struggle. A sustained process of militarization in Sri La…
Gendering the New Security Paradigm in Sri Lanka
This article points to the significant military turn that has taken place in Sri Lanka following the armed conflict between the Sri Lanka government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It is particularly concerned with the impacts on gender relations and how the lines between women's insecurity and militarised masculinity have been redrawn and reinforced. It argues that these gender relations can be seen in sharp relief in the…
Myth as history
Body Politics
The suicide bomber has been one of the most potent weapons of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in its 19-year separatist armed struggle against the Sri Lankan state. Of the 217 suicide attacks to date, 46 have been by women. This paper will analyse the representations of the LTTE female suicide bomber in literature, propa ganda, public debate and state security practice. It will argue that a discourse of morality already attenuating the act o…
Militarizing Sri Lanka
Constituting Martial Virtue: The Processes of Militarization in Sri Lanka Marketing War, Marketing Peace: Mediating Global Capital and National Security Staging Pain: The Disabled Soldier and the Butterflies Theatre Allegories of War: The Politics of Childhood, Mourning and Melancholia in the Tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden Figure of Speech: The Female Suicide Bomber, Censorship and the Literary-Cinematic Site The Promise of the Archive: Memo…
Between the War and the Sea
This paper looks at the linkages between the Asian tsunami which devastated Sri Lanka in December 2004 and the nation's ongoing armed conflict, from the perspective of women's experiences of these critical events. Public discourses, while politicizing the natural disaster represented by the tsunami, have tended to naturalize the armed conflict and the even larger toll on life of the ethnic struggle. A sustained process of militarization in Sri La…
Gendering the New Security Paradigm in Sri Lanka
This article points to the significant military turn that has taken place in Sri Lanka following the armed conflict between the Sri Lanka government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It is particularly concerned with the impacts on gender relations and how the lines between women's insecurity and militarised masculinity have been redrawn and reinforced. It argues that these gender relations can be seen in sharp relief in the…
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka
Pathways between childhood trauma, intimate partner violence, and harsh parenting
BACKGROUND: Although childhood trauma and violence against women are global public health issues, few population-based data from low-income and middle-income countries exist about the links between them. We present data from the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, exploring the pathways between different forms of childhood trauma and violence against women. METHODS: In this multicountry study, we interviewed multis…
Two homes, refugees in both’
Policies that address post-war displacement often reflect temporal linearity as transitional periods during which they are developed imply a shift from one situation to another. These policies obscure complexities experienced by local communities for whom displacement is ongoing and interminable. This essay applies Sri Lanka’s National Policy on Durable Solutions for Conflict-Affected Displacement (NPDSCAD) to the case of Northern Muslims who wer…
Locating authenticity- The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) publishes social science articles on topics relevant to Sri Lanka in particular and South Asia in general. The journal also has a website at http://www.nsf.gov.lk
Actants and Fault Lines
This article provides a contextual analysis of Janakaraliya (‘Theatre of the People’), a theatre company acclaimed for its excellence in theatre for social justice and peace building in Sri Lanka. It discusses the governing conditions that enable its practice and evaluates its impact, whether this be the biopower of the state and non-state actors during periods of political violence, donor funding frameworks, or the Janakaraliya archive itself as…
In the Shadow of Transitional Justice
The 'Cultural Life' of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)
This forum brings together reflections on Sri Lanka’s recent political struggles (aragalya) that ousted the incumbent president, and yet ended in political stasis. These reflections provide the space to think through what makes up the ‘cultural life’ of democracy in aragalya and beyond. The trope of the ‘cultural life’ of democracy enables these contributions to sketch an alternative way of theorising democracy as ‘actually existing politics’
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