Michael D Woost
Biographic Data
| ID | 120077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D Woost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | Woost |
| SIGNATURE | WOOST M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alternative Vocabularies of Development? ‘Community’ and ‘Participation’ in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka
Mainstream development in Sri Lanka has long been spearheaded by discourses about community, with the latter often being positioned as the motor of progress. The advent of participatory discourses about empowering the people seems to take this apparent drive for democracy in development practice a step further, leaving open the possibility of many different forms of group and individual effort. The emergence of a participatory element in the auth…
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.594 pp
Legends of People, Myths of State
Developing a Nation of Villages
La representation culturelle de l'etat sri lankais en tant que nation de villages est significative. Les programmes de repeuplement de colonies par le gouvernement et de regularisation des empietements dans les villages frontaliers visent a developper des villages individuels et a leur donner une auto-identite. La « decentralisation » est cependant fortement surveillee et ces communautes villageoises individualisees sont en fait des dependances d…
Nationalizing the local past in Sri Lanka
Focusing on a frontier settlement in southeastern Sri Lanka, this article examines how ideologies of the Sinhala Buddhist national past and local settlement history become articulated in the struggle over development. Employing an approach to cultural hegemony which departs from that generally used in social science, it shows how villagers adopt the dominant ideological frame of reference in order to enhance their claims to development resources.…
Nationalizing the local past in Sri Lanka
Focusing on a frontier settlement in southeastern Sri Lanka, this article examines how ideologies of the Sinhala Buddhist national past and local settlement history become articulated in the struggle over development. Employing an approach to cultural hegemony which departs from that generally used in social science, it shows how villagers adopt the dominant ideological frame of reference in order to enhance their claims to development resources.…
Developing a Nation of Villages
La representation culturelle de l'etat sri lankais en tant que nation de villages est significative. Les programmes de repeuplement de colonies par le gouvernement et de regularisation des empietements dans les villages frontaliers visent a developper des villages individuels et a leur donner une auto-identite. La « decentralisation » est cependant fortement surveillee et ces communautes villageoises individualisees sont en fait des dependances d…
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.594 pp
Legends of People, Myths of State
Nationalizing the local past in Sri Lanka
Focusing on a frontier settlement in southeastern Sri Lanka, this article examines how ideologies of the Sinhala Buddhist national past and local settlement history become articulated in the struggle over development. Employing an approach to cultural hegemony which departs from that generally used in social science, it shows how villagers adopt the dominant ideological frame of reference in order to enhance their claims to development resources.…
Legends of People, Myths of State
Developing a Nation of Villages
La representation culturelle de l'etat sri lankais en tant que nation de villages est significative. Les programmes de repeuplement de colonies par le gouvernement et de regularisation des empietements dans les villages frontaliers visent a developper des villages individuels et a leur donner une auto-identite. La « decentralisation » est cependant fortement surveillee et ces communautes villageoises individualisees sont en fait des dependances d…
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.594 pp
Alternative Vocabularies of Development? ‘Community’ and ‘Participation’ in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka
Mainstream development in Sri Lanka has long been spearheaded by discourses about community, with the latter often being positioned as the motor of progress. The advent of participatory discourses about empowering the people seems to take this apparent drive for democracy in development practice a step further, leaving open the possibility of many different forms of group and individual effort. The emergence of a participatory element in the auth…
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sri lanka (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)