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OverviewDr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mick MoorePublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) Volume: 34 ISBN: 9780511983269ISBN 10: 0511983263 Publication Date: 05 March 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Sri Lankan terms; 1. Puzzles and agendas; 2. Methods, scope and elaborations; 3. Crown lands; 4. Land reform; 5. Pricing and agricultural services; 6. Categorising space: urban-rural and core-periphery; 7. A smallholder interest or smallholder interests?; 8. Rural consciousness; 9. Ethnic conflict and the politics of the periphery; 10. The Sri Lankan polity; 11. Concluding remarks; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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