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Double wounding? : aid & activism in post-tsunami Sri Lanka
No full textAlso published in “Tsunami in a time of war: aid, activism & reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh,” de Alwis, Malathi and Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., eds. (2009)Due to copyright restrictions, this item cannot be sharedThose who argue for participation in development, “tend to believe that through this notion they have found a way of dealing with social contradictions generated by capitalism.” However, experts and animators, as mere ‘facilitators’ in this process also enable the development industry to shift responsibility (and thus accountability) for the consequences of their projects, to the participating folk. This paper questions intertwined notions of charity and wounding in war-torn, post-tsunami Sri Lanka where aid, in all its myriad forms from charity to cash-for-work to psycho-social therapy, appears at least at first pass, as a salve for those wounded by war and/or the tsunami
Governmentality, displacement and politics: a witches brew in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia
No full textThe devastation of the tsunami and reconstruction in its aftermath, in Aceh and Sri Lanka, resulted in a divergence of political trajectories with Aceh moving towards a cessation of war and Sri Lanka heading towards a resumption of war. These different political outcomes frame this volume's compelling arguments about aid, activism and reconstruction. The contributors, hailing from a diversity of disciplines offer critical analyses of many key categories mobilised in humanitarian discourses and practices while providing ethnographic accounts and case studies of an array of institutions and individuals. Importantly, this volume interrogates the frequent disconnect between research and policy and explores ways this divide can be bridged. A must read for donors and policy makers as well as researchers and activists
Tsunami in a time of war: aid activism and reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh
No full textThe devastation of the tsunami and reconstruction in its aftermath, in Aceh and Sri Lanka, resulted in a divergence of political trajectories with Aceh moving towards a cessation of war and Sri Lanka heading towards a resumption of war. These different political outcomes frame this volume's compelling arguments about aid, activism and reconstruction. The contributors, hailing from a diversity of disciplines offer critical analyses of many key categories mobilised in humanitarian discourses and practices while providing ethnographic accounts and case studies of an array of institutions and individuals. Importantly, this volume interrogates the frequent disconnect between research and policy and explores ways this divide can be bridged. A must read for donors and policy makers as well as researchers and activists
Post-tsunami reconstruction in contexts of war : a grassroots study of the geo-politics of humanitarian aid in Northern & Eastern Sri Lanka & Aceh, Indonesia; final technical report, August 2006 - January 2009
No full textThis 2-year, multi-sited, grassroots-based research project sought to study and compare the geopolitics of humanitarian aid in post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh Province, Indonesia. Particular attention was paid to understanding the subsequent political outcomes in each region through the different articulations of humanitarian aid delivery with local communities as well as state and non-state actors. The report outlines research ouputs and outcomes, including publications, policy briefs, conferences and related activities
Safer Sri Lanka? : technology, security and preparedness in post-tsunami Sri Lanka
No full textAlso published in “Tsunami in a time of war: aid, activism & reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh,” de Alwis, Malathi and Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., eds. (2009)A ‘preparedness’ rationale has increasingly shifted disaster management towards disaster risk management. The paper illustrates how the push to acquire more information and knowledge about disasters constitute new technological, governmental, and humanitarian practices. However, information does not always lend more knowledge; humanitarian action occurs in an untidy, thoroughly implicating, ‘second best world’. The structure of Global Information Systems (GIS) can be viewed as an instrument and artefact of disaster risk management, and also a network of relations. By way of ethnographic example, the paper shows how institutional and “rational” preparedness unfold in practice, in a devastated area of the eastern coast of Sri Lanka
"Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka"
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Geopolitics of pre-tsunami and post-tsunami aid to Sri Lanka
No full textAlso published in “Tsunami in a time of war: aid, activism & reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh,” de Alwis, Malathi and Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., eds. (2009)The paper presents evidence from research conducted before and after the tsunami to argue that crisis creates exceptionalism. CIDA dramatically changed its neoliberal application of ‘aid effectiveness’ policy in Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and this situation illustrates the historicized and geopolitical antecedents that shape aid practices on the ground. Aid is a highly geopolitical project that varies among bilateral donors and among international non-governmental organizations. Since the adoption of aid effectiveness principles in the early 2000s, CIDA planned to wrap up its bilateral aid programming and exit Sri Lanka. The tsunami changed that thinking, and this case study traces why and how
"Bodies, Shrines, and Roads: Violence, (Im)mobility, and Displacement in Sri Lanka"
Get PDFIn Sri Lanka, gender and national identities intersect to shape people's mobility and security in the context of conflict. This article aims to illustrate the gendered processes of identity construction in the context of competing militarised nationalisms. We contend that a feminist approach is crucial, and that gender analysis alone is insufficient. Gender cannot be considered analytically independent from nationalism or ethno-national identities because competing Tamil and Sinhala nationalist discourses produce particular gender identities and relations. Fraught and cross-cutting relations of gender, nation, class and location shape people's movement, safety and potential for displacement. In the conflict-ridden areas of Sri Lanka's North and East during 1999-2000, we set out to examine relations of gender and nation within the context of conflict. Our specific aim in this article is to analyse the ways in which certain identities are performed, on one hand, and subverted through premeditated performances of national identity on the other hand. We examine these processes at three sites-shrines, roads and people's bodies. Each is a strategic site of security/insecurity, depending on one's gender and ethno-national identity, as well as geographical location
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