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Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

The Trouser Under the Cloth

By: Anoma Pieris

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Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

The Trouser Under the Cloth

By: Anoma Pieris

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri Lanka. The country remains central to related architectural discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form, the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious, comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and original material and many imaginative insights into the history of architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the present day.

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282

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Routledge

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0415630029

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9780415630023

Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

By: Anoma Pieris,Mirjana Lozanovska,Alexandra Dellios,Andrew Saniga

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Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

By: Anoma Pieris,Mirjana Lozanovska,Alexandra Dellios,Andrew Saniga

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and urban industrial sites, migrant labor and resettlement altered the nation’s physical landscape, providing Australia with its contemporary economic base. While the immigrant contribution to nation-building in cultural terms is well-known, its everyday spatial, architectural and landscape transformations remain unexamined. This book aims to bring to the foreground postwar industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

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469

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Berghahn Books

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1805394584

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9781805394587

The Architecture of Confinement

By: Anoma Pieris,Lynne Horiuchi

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The Architecture of Confinement

By: Anoma Pieris,Lynne Horiuchi

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments.

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397

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Cambridge University Press

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131651918X

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9781316519189

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

An Illustrated International Survey

By: Anoma Pieris

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Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

An Illustrated International Survey

By: Anoma Pieris

Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling addition to the field of cultural production, illustrating how the facilities --- all built in the last three decades --- have challenged assumptions about nature, culture, and built form. Using the spatial-temporal practice of place-making as the starting point, the facilities highlighted here are described in terms of collaborations between a number of stake-holders and professional consultants. The book adopts the format of a descriptive survey with separate chapters devoted to individual case studies. A broad introductory chapter which presents the arguments and overview precedes richly illustrated short individual essays on selected projects. Each chapter commences with the details of the project including, location, area, cost and consultants, followed by a project description, and discussion of background, design development and reception of the projects. Each project is approached as an architectural commission, detailing the critical criteria, consultants, and processes. The format is adopted from architectural review essays typically used in awards or journal publications within the profession which are accessible and relevant for both academics and practitioners. Considerable attention is given to the process, and to the evaluation of the project as a cultural response. Each case study has been written with consultation of architects or administrators of the facilities for accuracy. Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey documents a rich legacy of collaboration across the spatial disciplines combining creative art practice, architecture, construction, landscape design and urban design in the production of unique and culturally significant social institutions. This book provides material on hitherto unknown bodies of work of talented architectural practices, working collaboratively with culturally different client groups and developing consultative processes that test models for inter-cultural engagement.

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329

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442264071

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9781442264076

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society

By: Anoma Pieris

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Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society

By: Anoma Pieris

During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.

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370

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824833546

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9780824833541

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Porous Nation

By: Anoma Pieris

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Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Porous Nation

By: Anoma Pieris

Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant transformative forces that remain largely unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses. This ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. This book argues that internecine conflict exposes the implicit violence within nation-state formations; mass human displacements heighten collective and individual ontological insecurity and neoliberalism makes the nation porous in unforeseen ways. Based around three themes – normative spaces, human mobilities and exilic states – it is organised into ten comprehensive, chapter-based explorations of a range of spatial units, including homes, cities, routes, camps and experiences of ruin that were irrevocably politicised by protracted conflict. Focusing on their material transformations over a thirty-seven-year period, the book explores what can be known of the war if we look beyond ethnicity to other salient, shared geographical features of this embattled history. The book uncovers how fealty to exclusionary cultures of political sovereignty aligns us with their violence, limiting our capacity for empathy, a boundary seemingly exacerbated by neoliberal opportunities. Making use of Sri Lanka as a case study to test geographic, architectural and urban methodologies for understanding violence, this book acts as a provocation to rethink current readings of the particular case study while reflecting on the more general impact of marketisation and militarisation in Asia. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including those scholars interested in South Asian history, politics and civil war, South Asian studies, border studies, geography and architecture and urban studies.

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245

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Routledge

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1351246321

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The Architecture of Confinement

By: Anoma Pieris,Lynne Horiuchi

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By: Anoma Pieris,Lynne Horiuchi

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Cambridge University Press

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131651918X

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New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture

India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand

By: Philip Goad,Anoma Pieris

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New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture

India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand

By: Philip Goad,Anoma Pieris

From three architecture industry experts comes a book nearly as sophisticated as the luxury homes profiled within. Inspired by new architectural agendas, such as rethinking congregational spaces and promoting a minimalist lifestyle, the luxury homes from across of Southeast Asia collected in this book dazzle with a bold new perspective on modern architecture. The 400 color photographs inside place you in beachfront scenes where the waves crash only inches from your feet; where you laze dreamily, jungle-side, in dazzling hotels; and finally, you come face to face with the most innovative concepts in all of Asia. With an additional 200 architectural plans to further inspire modern architecture aficionados, New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture presents breathtaking specimens from throughout Southeast Asia, including: India Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Let the luxury homes and residences in this book wow you, and open your eyes to a side of Southeast Asian architecture that you've never seen before.

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Tuttle Publishing

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0804850356

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9780804850353

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society

By: Anoma Pieris

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A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society

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Book's by Anoma Pieris

Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

Immigrant Industry

Immigrant Industry

The Architecture of Confinement

The Architecture of Confinement

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka

The Architecture of Confinement

The Architecture of Confinement

New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture

New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

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