The lure of land: peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka
This paper studies the contradictions of peasant politics in Sri Lanka's dry zone frontier in a highly militarized colonization scheme ('System L' of the Mahaweli Development Programme in Weli Oya in northern Sri Lanka). Through a detailed ethnographic study of the life histories of s...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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