Shahul Hasbullah
University of Peradeniya
5 Papers
39 Citations
Shahul Hasbullah is an academic researcher from University of Peradeniya. The author has contributed to research in topics: Civil society & Tamil. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications.
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Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace
Jonathan Spencer,Jonathan Goodhand,Shahul Hasbullah,Bart Klem,Benedikt Korf,Kalinga Tudor Silva +5 more
- 20 Dec 2014
TL;DR: Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque as mentioned in this paper is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war and provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.
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Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka
Shahul Hasbullah,Benedikt Korf +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the intricate relations between violence and the politics of community in a Muslim enclave in the east coast of Sri Lanka are studied, and it is argued that what is at play is a politics of purification, whereby violence becomes a project of community: violence in the name of purity and an imaginary of community produces "antinomies of community", i.e. the paradoxes of unity and friction that transgress political collectives.
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Sri Lankan society in an era of globalization : struggling to create a new social order
Shahul Hasbullah,Barrie M. Morrison +1 more
- 01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The case of a Forgotten Minority in Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict Who Will Care for Those Left at Home? The Effect of New Opportunities for Work on Families in Sri Sri Lanka - Nancy Waxler-Morrison Damming the Flood of Violence and Shoring Up Civil Society in a Era of Globalization - Sisira Pinnawala Conclusion as discussed by the authors.
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Muslim geographies and the politics of purification in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami
Shahul Hasbullah,Benedikt Korf +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the politics of aid in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami accentuated what they call the "politics of purification", the fragmented ethnic politics of territoriality.
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