Mediating the margins: the role of brokers and the Eastern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka’s post-war transition
Mediating the margins: the role of brokers and the Eastern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka’s post-war transition
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调解边缘：经纪人和东部省议会在斯里兰卡战后过渡中的作用
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10.1080/23802014.2016.1302816
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2016
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O. Walton
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作者：
J. Goodhand;B. Klem;O. Walton
摘要本文探讨了斯里兰卡战后转型时期东部省理事会的政治动态。我们发现，权力下放构成了对冲突的干预，而不是一个解决方案。它创造了新的制度舞台，重新谈判中心与边缘的关系，导致新形式的政治动员。这些争论有关键的空间维度：它涉及有争议的权力领土划分、标量操纵和边界绘制。斯里兰卡东部省探讨了这些问题，特别提到经纪人通过省理事会或与省理事会一起在调解中心与边缘地区关系方面发挥的作用。
Abstract This article explores the political dynamics surrounding the Eastern Provincial Council during Sri Lanka’s post-war transition. We show that decentralisation constituted an intervention in conflict, rather than a solution to it. It creates new institutional arenas to re-negotiate centre-periphery relations, resulting in new forms of political mobilisation. There are crucial spatial dimensions to these contentions: it involves contested territorialisation of power, scalar manoeuvring, and boundary drawing. These are explored in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, with particular reference to the role performed by brokers in mediating centre-periphery relations, through and alongside the Provincial Council.