After the war: A new patriotism in Sri Lanka?

Journal of Asian Studies

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1045-1054

  Wickramasinghe, Nira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

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EID: 77957282472     PISSN: 00219118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021911809990738     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Daily News, May 14, 2009.
2. Steven Kemper, "J. R. Jayawardena: Righteousness and Realpolitik." in History and the Roots of Conflict, ed. Jonathan Spencer (London; Routledge, 1990), 193; and
3. Nalani Hennayake, Culture, Development and Politics in Postcolonial Sri Lanka (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006).
4. Margaret Canovan, "Patriotism Is Not Enough." British Journal of Political Science 30, no. 3 (July 2000):413-32.
5. According to the Vamsa literature, Sri Lanka is the Dharmadvipa (island of the faith), consecrated by the Buddha himself as the land in which his teachings would flourish. The Mahavamsa, a sixthcentury court chronicle, states that on the very day of the Buddha's death, Vijaya-the founder of the Sinhala race-landed in Sri Lanka, as if to bear witness to the Buddha's prediction.
6. For an analysis of the events in 2007 and 2008, see Nira Wickramasinghe, "Sri Lanka in 2007: Military Successes, but at Humanitarian and Economic Costs." Asian Survey 48, no. 1 (January-February 2008):191-97; and
7. idem, "Waging War for Peace." Asian Survey 49, no. 1, (January-February 2009):59-65.
8. Dru Gladney ed., Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1998), 1.
9. Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).
10. See Nira Wickramasinghe, "Politics of Nostalgia: The Citizen as Peasant." Occasional Papers (New Series) no. 2, 2005, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Series.
11. See Simon Jenkins, "David Milliband's Piccolo Diplomacy." The Guardian, May 19, 2009, http://www.guardian. co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/19/ david-miliband-sri-lanka-diplomacy [accessed July 8, 2009].