Sacred modernity : nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood / Tariq Jazeel.

• Introduction -- Sacred modernity : nature, religion, and the politics of aesthetics -- Part I. Ruhuna (Yala) National Park. Landscape, nature, nationhood : a historical geography of Ruhuna (Yala) National Park -- Inscription and experience : the politics and aesthetics of nature tourism -- Political geographies : promoting, contesting, and purifying nature -- Part II. Tropical modern architecture. Built space, environment, modernism : (re)reading 'tropical modern' architecture -- Architecting one-ness : fluid spaces/sacred modernity -- Over-determinations : architecture, text, politics -- Conclusion : Sri Lankan nature as problem space.

• This book explores the relationships between nature and environment and the contested politics of nationhood in contemporary Sri Lanka. 

Ämnesord

Nationalism  (sao)

Nationalism  -- Sri Lanka. (LCSH)

Nature and civilization  -- Sri Lanka. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Social aspects -- Sri Lanka. (LCSH)

Nationalbewusstsein.  (gnd)

Natur.  (gnd)

Naturen  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Nationalism. 

Nature and civilization. 

Nature  -- Social aspects.

Nationalism  (LCSH)

Sri Lanka  (sao)

Sri Lanka.  (gnd)

Sri Lanka. 

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