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Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka

Citizenship, Development and Democracy Within Global North-South Dynamics

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

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Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka

Citizenship, Development and Democracy Within Global North-South Dynamics

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

Fusing the regional with the global, this book widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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183797022X

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9781837970223

Sports and The Global South

Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

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Sports and The Global South

Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures. By explaining how the realm of social reproduction involving households and communities is integral for play and sports, the book challenges the market-driven ‘sports and development’ agenda while arguing for a ‘sports commons.’ By foregrounding issues of justice and care, the book highlights how struggles for recognition, redistribution and representation are central to reimagining sports within an alternative notion of work, play and resistance.

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388

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Springer

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3319685023

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9783319685021

The Labour Movement in the Global South

Trade Unions in Sri Lanka

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

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The Labour Movement in the Global South

Trade Unions in Sri Lanka

By: S. Janaka Biyanwila

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.

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335

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Routledge

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1136904255

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9781136904257

Book's by S. Janaka Biyanwila

Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka

Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka

Sports and The Global South

Sports and The Global South

The Labour Movement in the Global South

The Labour Movement in the Global South

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