Jayadeva Uyangoda's research while affiliated with University of Colombo and other places
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Publications (21)
Cinnamon was a prime commodity in the brisk Indian Ocean trade since its revival about tenth century AD. Sri Lanka was the sole supplier of high-quality cinnamon for the global market for a long time. Cinnamon grew wild in Western and Southern parts of Sri Lanka. Before these cinnamon-growing areas were occupied by Western powers, indigenous kings...
The article explores the ways in which Buddhism had reinvented itself in a modernist idiom to deal with social and political conditions in India and Sri Lanka. This is done primarily by looking into the work of Anagarika Dharmapala, Iyothee Thass and B.R. Ambedkar. In general, the article is an attempt to place in context how political conditions o...
This paper is a preliminary report on citizens understanding and perceptions of democracy in Sri Lanka, as reflected in a survey carried out in 2004-2005. The survey was a part of a South Asian study covering Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka on the theme "State of Democracy and Human Security in South Asia." The report of the overa...
In Sri Lanka's political science research, the body of work directly on the theme of democracy is somewhat thin. The survey and studies on the 'State of Democracy and Human Security', carried out by the Social Scientists Association (SSA) in 2004-2005 is the main research effort made directly in the field of democracy studies. This was a part of a...
This chapter explores political contexts and conditions that have made coalition politics an enduring feature in the politics of parliamentary governance in Sri Lanka since the political independence of 1948. The chapter investigates the following questions: what are the factors that have made coalition politics a recurring dimension of regime form...
The two key events of 2010 in Sri Lanka were the respective presidential and parliamentary elections, which enabled President Mahinda Rajapaksha's government to consolidate power in both the executive and legislative branches of the state in the post-civil war era. Regime priority has been toward political consolidation, rather than ethnic reconcil...
This book examines the internationally facilitated peace process between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in order to provide critical insights on contemporary attempts at crafting liberal peace in intrastate conflicts. The general argument is for a broadened political perspective on conflict resolu...
Political developments in Sri Lanka in 2009 centered primarily around the end of the protracted civil war between the state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), with the total military defeat of the LTTE. Sri Lanka subsequently entered an uncertain phase of post-civil war political reconstruction. The announcement to hold early presiden...
With the impending total defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, this secessionist group will cease to be a political force in Sri Lanka. But will there be a political solution to the ethnic conflict in the aftermath of the government's military success? Events in the coming weeks and months will show the extent to which President Rajapakse...
Indian and Pakistani political establishments should deal with the post-Mumbai crisis with. greater prudence than they seem to demonstrate at present. Both countries should realise the immense dangers awaiting them if one country, Pakistan, avoids its responsibility towards India's security and the other country, India, globalises the threat from m...
Pakistan and Nepal offer contrasting scenarios in a transition to democracy. Both countries are going through a period of painful transition with significant specificities. The complicated power-sharing arrangements in Pakistan and the Maoists' task in Nepal of integrating their own parallel institutions with the state apparatus and managing a tran...
In the seemingly unending search for a solution to the ethno-political conflict in Sri Lanka, the Rajapakse administration has come up with a new strategy. The course of action calls for pragmatic political deals with the non-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Tamil militant groups and no place for negotiations with the LTTE, which the government tre...
The radical, Sinhalese nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has split, the real reasons for which are not yet clear. Among the various possible reasons are the mainstream JVP'S unease with a breakaway faction's Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist project and the collision of the Sinhalese nationalist and class struggle lines within the party. It is als...
During the course of the 25-yearlong civil war, the Sri Lankan state has changed character, which is now manifest very sharply. Sri Lanka has become a national security state where civil and political rights remain suspended, where the civil-military relationship has changed and the military has been accorded greater say. The ethnic communal and ma...
The idea of Sri Lanka integrating with India seems far-fetched, but not in the view of Kumar Dayid, a left-wing academic who seems to think that the political and economic integration that India has already achieved would be a powerful impetus to manage the Sri Lankan majoritarian as well as minoritarian politics of mutual enmity within the larger...
Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict has become protracted and intractable. The twenty-five-year-old civil war has been interrupted numerous times for a negotiated peace and political settlement, yet the conflict has defied de-escalation. All failed attempts at negotiated peace have propelled the civil war forward with greater vitality and intensity. Attemp...
Sri Lanka's unitary state and consequently much of its pluralist contestations are products of a precise colonial legacy, particularly the organization and reproduction of the constitutional principle of European/British unitary state in the island. Only after decades of violent ethnic conflicts between the minority Tamils and the majoritarian Sinh...
This paper examines how the Tsunami of 26 December 2005 re‐defined some key dimensions of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict and peace processes. It first shows how the contending perspectives on the post‐tsunami recovery strategies had brought back to the centre of Sri Lanka's political debate issues of power sharing, regional autonomy, and national sove...
Citations
... Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum J. Presl, Family: Lauraceae), the spice obtained from the processed bark of cinnamon trees, is considered one of the most valuable commodities traded during the tenth to the fifteenth centuries by Arab dealers [1]. They kept the origin of the product a secret as a business tactic until Lourenço de Almeida landed in Sri Lanka due to an accident [2]. Once the well-kept secret was revealed and the trading community became aware that cinnamon is grown in the upcountry region of Sri Lanka, the country itself attracted the attention of some powerful entities, which led to the enslavement of the country to three different nations for more than three hundred years [3]. ...
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... Thereby, it is possible to argue that he invented the political formula of minority otherization in modern Sri Lanka. 24 ...
... The history and the causes of the civil war in Sri Lanka are popularly found to be grounded in the contentious ethnic relations between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority, and the political and eco- nomic marginalization of the latter community by the successive majority- backed Sinhalese governments that have come to state power since indepen- dence from the British in 1948 (De Silva, 2000;De Votta, 2004). According to a recent literature survey conducted on the state of democracy in Sri Lanka, Uyangoda observed that many scholars had applied cultural and ideological yardsticks to explain the growth and spread of majority and minority ethnic politics within the conventional nation-state framework (Uyangoda, 2009). ...
... Sri Lanka's civil war, which lasted for almost three decades (Neumann and Fahmy, 2012, pp.170-172), and the resulting continuation of rule by emergency (Coomaraswamy and de los Reyes, 2004, pp. 275-276), facilitated the construction of just such a hyper presidential system (Uyangoda, 2011;Jayasuriya, 2012, pp. 1-11;DeVotta, 2011, pp.130-144). ...
... In the 1990s, paralleling global academic work on liberal peacebuilding, a framework of liberal peace is explicitly used in exploring the ethnic conflict (see DeVotta, 2000;DeVotta & Stone, 2008;Frerk & Klem, 2005;Loganathan, 1996;Stokke & Uyangoda, 2011;Wickramasinghe, 2006). The literature assesses the different phases of the war with the LTTE and the collapse of the many attempts to bring about a negotiated peace through peacemaking (DeVotta, 2004;DeVotta, 2009a;Orjuela, 2003;Sarvanathan, 2007;Stokke, 2007Stokke, : 2009Stokke & Uyangoda, 2011;Uyangoda, 2008;Wickramasinghe, 2008;Wickramasinghe, 2009a). ...
... The prominent political science scholar in Sri Lanka, Uyangoda (2000Uyangoda ( a&b, 2005Uyangoda ( , 2009Uyangoda ( , 2010aUyangoda ( , 2011a&b, 2012 reviews the political reform debate in Sri Lanka in his various research works. In "State of Desire? ...
... War politics leads to resolve conflicts through military means instead of peaceful resolution of conflict in normal political process. When civil war is protracted and long-lasting war becomes normal (Uyangoda, 2008). Normalizing of war deprives off the capacity of the state to act as usual. ...
... The next paradox was that JVP nationalist propaganda pilloried the state for its weakness in surrendering Sinhala sovereignty to the Indians. Indian intervention redefined JVP politics in Sri Lanka (Uyangoda 2008). This resonated in the South and built support for JVP. ...
... Following 2004, the UPFA congress focused on producing large quantities for household use, such as rice, grains, and other agricultural commodities. Steadily increasing deregulation, financial change, and a focus on export-oriented expansion contributed to strengthening the economy's effectiveness after the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna [15] uprising was put down, pushing Gross Domestic Product to 7% in 1993. Cultivation harvests only compensated for 20% of exports in 1996, down from 93% throughout the 70s. ...
... Development is a central component of peacebuilding literature (MacGinty and Sanghera, 2012). Achieving peace through development is the liberal peacebuilding narrative, which suits post-war governments whose focus generally lies more in the direction of development than building substantive peace (Stokke and Uyangoda, 2011). Development is seen as a way of building the peace; with energy being one main pillar of their development paradigm. ...
Reference: Energy transitions in a post-war setting
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