Sri Lankan society in an era of globalization: struggling to create a new social order/
S H Hasbullah; Barrie M Morrison
- SAGE, 2004.
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I : The Challenge of Societal Reorganization -- 1 -- Overwhelming Change and Faltering Institutions, 1948-2002 -- Part II : Tensions of Class and Caste, Group Rights and Individual Freedoms -- 2 -- Religious and Ideological Intransigence among the Sinhalese -- 3 -- Religious Ideology among the Tamils -- 4 -- Tightening Social Cohesion and Excluding 'Others' among the Sinhalese -- 5 -- From Differences to Ethnic Solidarity among the Tamils. 6 -- The Rise of Militant Tamil Nationalism, Its Assumptions and the Cultural Production of Tamil Women -- Part III : The Struggle to Build a Better Life, a Better Society -- 7 -- Struggling to Create Self-Help Organizations in an Urban Slum: Mahaiyawa -- 8 -- Expanding World Demand for Gems: The Old Poor and the New Rich in Ratnapura -- 9 -- Bonded Tea Estate Workers: Still Waiting at the Gates -- 10 -- Satyodaya, NGOs and Civil Society: Mobilizing across Class and Community in a Globalizing Economy -- Part IV : Building a Better Society? Large Problems with Weakened Capacity. 11 -- Justice for the Dispossessed: The Case of a Forgotten Minority in Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict -- 12 -- Who Will Care for Those Left at Home? The Effect of New Opportunities for Work on Families in Sri Lanka -- 13 -- Damming the Flood of Violence and Shoring Up Civil Society in an Era of Globalization -- Conclusion -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.