scholarly journals The Role of Sri Lanka in Enhancing Connectivity between South Asia and Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dushni Weerakoon ◽  
Nipuni Perera
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia

The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Gisa Jähnichen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The Way

The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge. In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.

Taking Dumont to Southeast Asia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ward Keeler
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Insight Into

Louis Dumont’s analysis of hierarchy in South Asia provides insight into how hierarchical assumptions inform social relations in Burma. Although Burmese society lacks caste, it still organizes everyone’s social relations on the principle that individuals enter into relationships because of their differences, and every relationship will place one person in a position of superiority, the other as subordinate. Benedict Anderson’s work on charisma in Java complements Dumont’s work by showing how assuming that power comes from above encourages people to subordinate themselves to concentrations of power. Marina Warner’s analysis of tales makes it clear that people who are structurally weak have no choice but to try to establish themselves as dependents of powerful others. Kapferer’s work in Sri Lanka provides further guidance for adapting Dumont’s analysis of hierarchy to other contexts outside India.

Religion, nationalism, and gender: Perspective from South Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 205789111989852
Author(s):  
Nandini Deo
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
British Colonies

Religious mobilization often takes the form of engagement with “the woman question”: how should women as carriers of culture comport themselves? This article shows that many of the debates over the role of women and religion in South Asia are misunderstood when they are seen as instances of religious fundamentalism. Rather, the theoretical framework to make sense of public religion and gender debates should be through the lens of postcolonial nationalism. The creation and consolidation of the nation is what is at stake—not the creation of the religious community as such. In order to make this argument, the article offers both a review of the literature on secularism and gender as well as short case studies from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. These three former British colonies have each struggled to arrive at a secular settlement and often the contestation over the place of religion has centered on the rules and roles of women in these societies.

Note on the Term Therav?da

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhikkhu Analayo
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Current Usage

With the present article I study the trajectory of the term therav?da from its earliest occurrence in the P?li canon to its present day usage as a designation of the form of Buddhism found in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. My presentation begins with the term therav?da in the P?li discourses, followed by turning to the P?li commentaries and chronicles. Next I examine the role of the P?li canon in the Therav?da tradition and the conception of Therav?da as a monastic lineage, after which I discuss current usage and survey alternative terms.

scholarly journals South Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 531-556
Author(s):  
S.R. Osmani
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
East And Southeast Asia

Soon after independence from British rule, the South Asia region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the developing world; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large part of the region seems finally to have turned a corner and is looking forward to a much better future—in terms of growth, poverty reduction and human development. This chapter describes and explains this story in terms of economic strategies and the political economy of the region and also looks ahead to identify the major challenges that remain—focusing on Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals Green Technology Innovation, Globalization, and CO2 Emissions: Recent Insights from the OBOR Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Ahmer Bilal ◽  
Xiaoping Li ◽  
Nanli Zhu ◽  
Ridhima Sharma ◽  
Atif Jahanger
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Information And Communication

This study explores the connection between technological innovation, globalization, and CO2 emissions by controlling the critical influence of information and communication technology (ICT) and economic growth in a panel of One Belt One Road (OBOR) countries from 1991 to 2019, utilizing advanced and robust econometric strategies (second generation). In addition, this study also uses an interaction variable (TI*GLOB) to check the interaction role of technological innovation on the linkage between globalization and CO2 emission, besides their direct effect on CO2 emissions in OBOR countries. The outcomes revealed that the linkage between technological innovation and CO2 emissions is negative, and statically significant in all the regions (e.g., OBOR, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, MENA, Europe, and Central Asia). Moreover, the results of globalization show a significant positive relationship with CO2 emissions in OBOR and South Asia region. Nevertheless, it significantly negatively affects environmental pollution in East and Southeast Asia, MENA, Europe, and Central Asia. The results of TI*GLOB indicate that, for the OBOR sample, East and Southeast Asia, and Central Asia, the moderation effects of technological innovation with globalization are significantly negatively associated with CO2 emissions. However, in MENA and Europe, the interaction effect is a significant positive. The coefficient of ICT for OBOR, Europe, and Central Asia are positive and statistically significant; however, for East, Southeast Asia, and MENA regions, these results are statistically negative. Furthermore, the findings are robust, according to various robustness checks that we have performed for checking the reliability of our main findings. The study establishes numerous polities and makes various recommendations, in light of relevant conclusions.

New Literatures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanika Batra ◽  
Christine Lorre-Johnston ◽  
Kerry Manzo ◽  
Dougal Mcneill ◽  
Benjamin Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract This chapter has seven sections: 1. Africa; 2. Australia; 3. Canada; 4. The Caribbean; 5. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka; 6. New Zealand and Pacific; 7. Southeast Asia. Section 1 is by Kanika Batra, Kerry Manzo, and Joya Uraizee; coverage of West Africa will resume in 2022; section 2 is by Benjamin Miller and Paul Sharrad; section 3 is by Christine Lorre-Johnston and Libe García Zarranz; section 4 is by Michael Niblett; section 5 will resume in 2022; section 6 is by Dougal McNeill; section 7 is by Cheryl Narumi Naruse.

scholarly journals Contesting Agricultural Markets in South Asia: Farmer Movements, Co-operatives and Alternative Visions

2021 ◽  
pp. 097639962110567
Author(s):  
Ahilan Kadirgamar ◽  
Hashim Bin Rashid ◽  
Amod Shah
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Agricultural Markets ◽  
Political Coalition ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Post War ◽  
Context Specific

Recent laws for privatizing agricultural produce markets in India are just one prominent example of long-running efforts to liberalize agriculture across South Asia. These legacies of state withdrawal from agriculture and the growing role of private intermediaries in both input and output markets have precipitated simultaneous crises of reproduction and accumulation in the countryside. However, such trajectories of liberalization are both context-specific and politically contested. Drawing from two cases—the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad’s efforts to build a broad political coalition among differentiated agrarian producers to contest the place of farmers in agricultural markets and the Northern Sri Lanka co-operative movement’s autonomous initiatives for post-war rural reconstruction—this article argues that rural movements are providing new and alternative visions for how farmers can engage with liberalizing agricultural markets on more equitable terms.

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