Sri Lanka was a colony of the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. The simplification of Sri
Lankan food culture can be seen most clearly today, including how the diet has been …

The development of modern planning practice from the late nineteenth century was, from the
outset, an international activity. A high proportion of early planners practised in countries …

Slum eradication has been a concern in South Asian cities since the colonial times.
Legislation and policies are being framed both out of national desires and international …

Modern architecture is a creation of the West. In a non-Western context, it normally reflects a
direct intervention of Western powers through colonization. Thailand, formerly known as …

The Mahaweli Development Project, Sri Lanka's largest-ever single development project,
aimed to harness the water resources of the country's longest river, the Mahaweli, and six …

South Asia's bourgeoning agglomerations are argued to derive their imageries from the
abstracted northern notions of the urban, partially captured by the umbrella phrase–world …

From the 1830s until the 1930s, millions of Indians migrated to work on plantations
throughout the British empire, producing a massive diaspora in Asia, Africa and the …

This dissertation is concerned with investigating the construction of the identities of a place,
that is, the way we spatially, socially, and mentally create, understand and give meaning to a …

On 17 May, 2009, the then President Mahinda Rajapakse gave a speech to the Sri Lankan
nation celebrating the Government's victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) …

Discussing the island-ness in the imaginary of Sri Lanka, Jazeel (2009: 400) has argued:
Like all geographical facts, however, the Sri Lankan island is also a mapping; a way of …