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Urban UtopiasManifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo

Urban Utopias: Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a... [Fuglerud situates the ongoing urban renewal in Colombo within the wider economic and political context of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule in Sri Lanka during the period 2005–2014. The main two factors behind the many forced evictions of low-income communities from central Colombo in the last decade are the deployment of an authoritarian technology of ‘zoning’, privileging some segments of the population while neglecting others, and the building of an economic alliance with China. Urban renewal has been a way of building political support through the promise of a ‘world class’ future for the aspiring.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban UtopiasManifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A.
Fuglerud, Øivind
Urban Utopias — Mar 10, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-47622-3
Pages
119 –138
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0_7
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Abstract

[Fuglerud situates the ongoing urban renewal in Colombo within the wider economic and political context of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule in Sri Lanka during the period 2005–2014. The main two factors behind the many forced evictions of low-income communities from central Colombo in the last decade are the deployment of an authoritarian technology of ‘zoning’, privileging some segments of the population while neglecting others, and the building of an economic alliance with China. Urban renewal has been a way of building political support through the promise of a ‘world class’ future for the aspiring.]

Published: Mar 10, 2017

Keywords: Presidential Election; Urban Renewal; Container Terminal; Worlding Practice; Political Weekly

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