*Please note this event has been postponed. Future date TBC*.
Nihal Perera is Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University. His most recent books are People’s Spaces (Routledge, 2016) and Transforming Asian Cities (edited with Wing-Shing Tang, Routledge, 2013).
In this Sussex Development Lecture he will reflect on the current situation using his classic 1999 book Decolonizing Ceylon, Colonialism, Nationalism and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Sri Lanka seems to be stuck in the past; it still has the same provinces, the infrastructure, the railway network the European colonials built. Even the economy is not too different.
Nihal Perera will address the current implications of this issue. His work has focused on the colonial production of Ceylon the main impact of which is mental (cultural) subjectivity.
Asking how Sri Lanka might move beyond this impasse to recognise the incredible solidarity Sri Lankan citizens have displayed and to move to a position where greater international solidarity will be possible.
Speakers
Nihal Prerera, Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University.
Chair
Michael Collyer, Professor of Geography (International Development)
School of Global Studies
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