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> January 22, 2011
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> Call for papers: Session 'Locating Sri Lankan Politics', BASAS 2011, UK
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> From:**Tariq Jazeel <T.Jazeel@sheffield.ac.uk
> <mailto:T.Jazeel@sheffield.ac.uk>>
>
> Dear All
>
> Seeking one or two more papers for the following session at this year's
> British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) conference at the
> University of Southampton, UK, April 11-13th.
>
> Session title: Locating Sri Lankan politics: power, space and dissent
>
> If violent contestations between state and non-state power were a
> consistent and defining feature of Sri Lanka's wartime political
> landscape, in a post-war context the country's political landscape is
> marked by the increasing hegemony of the current regime. As a consequence,
> forms of governmental power have been felt and negotiated through a
> variety of everyday, mundane and ordinary spatialities that have varying
> attachments to Sri Lanka's formal political sphere: the home, urban space,
> the national press and media, checkpoints, environment and nature, sacred
> space, educational and university space, to name just a few examples. At
> the same time, the flagging of dissent as "unpatriotic" has also seen the
> emergence of increasingly creative spaces for subversive political
> negotiation, including cyberspace and the blogosphere, literature, art and
> performance, for example.
>
> This session aims to broadly explore the relationships between space and
> Sri Lankan cultural/national politics. It seeks papers that seek in
> empirical and theoretical terms either to locate the spaces in and through
> which power has and continues to be lived in the Sri Lankan context, or
> those that elucidate on emergent spaces for dissident political activism
> in the post-war present.
>
> Papers may explore some of the following questions:
> - What are, and have been, the relationships between space and state power
> in Sri Lanka, both during and after the war?
> - What are the changing relationships between the public, the private and
> the political in Sri Lanka's recent history?
> - Through what scales, locations and everyday formations have forms of
> state and non-state power been felt, lived and negotiated?
> - Through what kinds of spaces are democratic political negotiations
> occurring?
> - How, and where, can 'the political' be located in a post-war context
> where the government considers dissent unpatriotic?
> - What are the relationships between contemporary social science and
> humanities scholarship on Sri Lanka and political intervention?
>
> Those interested, please email Tariq Jazeel (t.jazeel@shef.ac.uk
> <mailto:t.jazeel@shef.ac.uk>) by 29th January.
>
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>
> A little more about the conference this year:
> BASAS Annual Conference
> Bodies of Power, Forms of Power: South Asia through History and Across
> Disciplines
>
> Call for Papers and Panel Abstracts
> 25th Annual BASAS Conference
> April 11-13, 2011
> University of Southampton
>
> Who holds power in South Asia? Who holds power in relation to South Asia
> and the South Asian Diaspora? How is power embodied, how is it wielded,
> and to what ends? Where is power located, how is it accessed, how is it
> articulated, and how is it signified? Who submits to power, who ignores
> power, and who resists power? How is power formed, how is it performed,
> and in what forms and through what bodies is it negotiated? Panels and
> papers might be keyed around issues of community, class, caste, ethnicity,
> gender; nation, governance, law; geography, development, culture,
> environment; language, linguistics and representation.
>
> Conference convenors: Dr. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Professor Ian Talbot and
> Dr. Stephanie Jones
>
> Panel Submission Details:
> * Submission of paper abstracts for panels: January 31, 2011
> * Registration Deadline: March 15, 2011
>
> Cost:
> full-delegate rates: £170.00; post-graduate students, unwaged and
> delegates from South Asia: £160.00
> There are 20 postgraduate bursaries of £125.00 which will be distributed
> on a first registered, first distributed basis.
>
> http://www.basas.org.uk/events.htm
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Tariq Jazeel
> Lecturer in Human Geography
> Department of Geography
> University of Sheffield
> Winter Street
> Sheffield
> S10 2TN
>
> Tel +44(0)114 222 7969
> Fax +44(0)114 279 7912
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/jazeel_tariq/index.html
>
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