Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World : : Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives / / Asoka Bandarage.

This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 249 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Figures List
  • Tables List
  • Appendices List
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World
  • Chapter 2: Pre-Colonial Era to Colonial Rule and Capitalism: C. 3 BCE to 1948
  • Chapter 3: ‘Flag Independence’, Left-Wing Nationalism and Decolonization, 1948 – 1977
  • Chapter 4: Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism and Recolonization, 1977 –2009
  • Chapter 5: Geopolitical Rivalry, Neocolonialism and Political Destabilization, 2009 –2019
  • Chapter 6: Debt Colonialism, Inequality and the Crisis of Survival, 2019 – 2022
  • Chapter 7: Ecological and Collective Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization
  • Appendices
  • Selected Bibliography