Asoka Bandarage
Biographic Data
| ID | 278343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asoka Bandarage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asoka |
| FAMILY NAME | Bandarage |
| SIGNATURE | BANDARAGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World
This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty an…
Sujit Sivasundaram. Islanded
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram purports to “put together a new narrative in the theory of colonial transition in South Asia” (p. 321). Focusing on the early period of British rule in Sri Lanka, from 1815 to 1848, the book argues that British state-making and patronage of Sinhala Buddhism resulted in the “islanding” and “partitioning” of Sri Lanka from the Indian mainland. It is claimed…
Political Economy of Epidemic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka
The Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), taking the lives of thousands in poor farming communities in Sri Lanka, is commonly seen as a problem peculiar to the island's north central dry zone agricultural region. The prevailing bio-medical focus is on identifying one or more "environmental nephrotoxins." While delineating important controversies on the etiology of the disease, this article seeks to broaden the discourse on the hitherto neglected politica…
Towards Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka
Since the end of the armed conflict and the defeat of terrorism in May 2009, the international movement to establish Tamil political autonomy in Sri Lanka’s Northern and Eastern regions has intensified. The faction of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora which leads the separatist struggle has declared a virtual ‘Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam’. Tamil politicians on the island, the ‘international community’ and India are all calling for maximum…
Women, Armed Conflict, and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka
This article discusses women's roles as victims, perpetrators, and peacemakers in armed conflicts in contemporary Sri Lanka. It covers such phenomena as rape as a weapon of war, women IDPs, “war widows,” female‐headed households, women suicide bombers, mothers for peace, and feminist peace activism. The article points out that aggression and victimization need to be understood as occurring across ethnicity and gender as well as within ethnic and …
The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is consider…
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
A new Malthusianism
Malthusianism is one of the most pervasive, if not the dominant, response to the current global political and economic crisis. It derives its name from the doctrine articulated by English clergyman‐turned‐economist Thomas Malthus, in 1798. Malthusianism views the numerical increase of the human population as the root cause of natural resource depletion, poverty, and social unrest, and population control as the primary solution to these problems
Population and Development
Rapid population growth in the world today is not simply attributable to ignorance, irrationality, and apathy of the poor or their lack of access to contraceptives. The fundamental reasons for population growth in the South and population decline in the North (apart from immigration from the South) lie in the evolution of industrial capitalism and Western imperialism. Contemporary international migration also has its origins in these historical d…
In search of a new world order
In search of a new world order
Women of the third world
Women and capitalist development in Sri Lanka, 1977-87
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAsoka BandarageEarlier versions of this paper were presented at many seminars and conferences, most recently at: the conference on Human Rights in South and Southeast Asia University of Buffalo, State University of New York, May 1988; Sri Lanka Study Group at Harvard Cambridge, MA April 1988; the conference on Multinational Culture: Social, Impacts of the Global Economy, Hofstra University, NY, March 198…
Geography and Ethnic Pluralism
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Women in Development
Toward a New World Information Order
The establishment and consolidation of the plantation economy in Sri Lanka
Some of the major economic and political problems facing Sri Lanka today, such as the inherent instability of the export economy, land hunger of the peasantry, backwardness of rural agriculture and marginality of the Tamil estate labor force, are commonly attributed to the colonial experience and to the plantation economy in particular. Before we can understand the neo-colonial manifestations of these problems or the strategies necessary to overc…
The Disintegrating Village. Social Change in Rural Sri Lanka
Women in Development
The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is consider…
In search of a new world order
Women and capitalist development in Sri Lanka, 1977-87
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAsoka BandarageEarlier versions of this paper were presented at many seminars and conferences, most recently at: the conference on Human Rights in South and Southeast Asia University of Buffalo, State University of New York, May 1988; Sri Lanka Study Group at Harvard Cambridge, MA April 1988; the conference on Multinational Culture: Social, Impacts of the Global Economy, Hofstra University, NY, March 198…
Political Economy of Epidemic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka
The Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), taking the lives of thousands in poor farming communities in Sri Lanka, is commonly seen as a problem peculiar to the island's north central dry zone agricultural region. The prevailing bio-medical focus is on identifying one or more "environmental nephrotoxins." While delineating important controversies on the etiology of the disease, this article seeks to broaden the discourse on the hitherto neglected politica…
Population and Development
Rapid population growth in the world today is not simply attributable to ignorance, irrationality, and apathy of the poor or their lack of access to contraceptives. The fundamental reasons for population growth in the South and population decline in the North (apart from immigration from the South) lie in the evolution of industrial capitalism and Western imperialism. Contemporary international migration also has its origins in these historical d…
Towards Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka
Since the end of the armed conflict and the defeat of terrorism in May 2009, the international movement to establish Tamil political autonomy in Sri Lanka’s Northern and Eastern regions has intensified. The faction of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora which leads the separatist struggle has declared a virtual ‘Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam’. Tamil politicians on the island, the ‘international community’ and India are all calling for maximum…
Women, Armed Conflict, and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka
This article discusses women's roles as victims, perpetrators, and peacemakers in armed conflicts in contemporary Sri Lanka. It covers such phenomena as rape as a weapon of war, women IDPs, “war widows,” female‐headed households, women suicide bombers, mothers for peace, and feminist peace activism. The article points out that aggression and victimization need to be understood as occurring across ethnicity and gender as well as within ethnic and …
The establishment and consolidation of the plantation economy in Sri Lanka
Some of the major economic and political problems facing Sri Lanka today, such as the inherent instability of the export economy, land hunger of the peasantry, backwardness of rural agriculture and marginality of the Tamil estate labor force, are commonly attributed to the colonial experience and to the plantation economy in particular. Before we can understand the neo-colonial manifestations of these problems or the strategies necessary to overc…
The Disintegrating Village. Social Change in Rural Sri Lanka
Toward a New World Information Order
The establishment and consolidation of the plantation economy in Sri Lanka
Some of the major economic and political problems facing Sri Lanka today, such as the inherent instability of the export economy, land hunger of the peasantry, backwardness of rural agriculture and marginality of the Tamil estate labor force, are commonly attributed to the colonial experience and to the plantation economy in particular. Before we can understand the neo-colonial manifestations of these problems or the strategies necessary to overc…
Women in Development
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Geography and Ethnic Pluralism
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women and capitalist development in Sri Lanka, 1977-87
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAsoka BandarageEarlier versions of this paper were presented at many seminars and conferences, most recently at: the conference on Human Rights in South and Southeast Asia University of Buffalo, State University of New York, May 1988; Sri Lanka Study Group at Harvard Cambridge, MA April 1988; the conference on Multinational Culture: Social, Impacts of the Global Economy, Hofstra University, NY, March 198…
Women of the third world
In search of a new world order
In search of a new world order
A new Malthusianism
Malthusianism is one of the most pervasive, if not the dominant, response to the current global political and economic crisis. It derives its name from the doctrine articulated by English clergyman‐turned‐economist Thomas Malthus, in 1798. Malthusianism views the numerical increase of the human population as the root cause of natural resource depletion, poverty, and social unrest, and population control as the primary solution to these problems
Population and Development
Rapid population growth in the world today is not simply attributable to ignorance, irrationality, and apathy of the poor or their lack of access to contraceptives. The fundamental reasons for population growth in the South and population decline in the North (apart from immigration from the South) lie in the evolution of industrial capitalism and Western imperialism. Contemporary international migration also has its origins in these historical d…
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed struggles. The internationally banned LTTE is consider…
Women, Armed Conflict, and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka
This article discusses women's roles as victims, perpetrators, and peacemakers in armed conflicts in contemporary Sri Lanka. It covers such phenomena as rape as a weapon of war, women IDPs, “war widows,” female‐headed households, women suicide bombers, mothers for peace, and feminist peace activism. The article points out that aggression and victimization need to be understood as occurring across ethnicity and gender as well as within ethnic and …
Towards Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka
Since the end of the armed conflict and the defeat of terrorism in May 2009, the international movement to establish Tamil political autonomy in Sri Lanka’s Northern and Eastern regions has intensified. The faction of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora which leads the separatist struggle has declared a virtual ‘Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam’. Tamil politicians on the island, the ‘international community’ and India are all calling for maximum…
Political Economy of Epidemic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka
The Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), taking the lives of thousands in poor farming communities in Sri Lanka, is commonly seen as a problem peculiar to the island's north central dry zone agricultural region. The prevailing bio-medical focus is on identifying one or more "environmental nephrotoxins." While delineating important controversies on the etiology of the disease, this article seeks to broaden the discourse on the hitherto neglected politica…
Sujit Sivasundaram. Islanded
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram purports to “put together a new narrative in the theory of colonial transition in South Asia” (p. 321). Focusing on the early period of British rule in Sri Lanka, from 1815 to 1848, the book argues that British state-making and patronage of Sinhala Buddhism resulted in the “islanding” and “partitioning” of Sri Lanka from the Indian mainland. It is claimed…
Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World
This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty an…
Political science (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Development economics (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Sri lanka (10 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (8 works)