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Sacred Modernisms: reading the politics of 'nature' in Sri Lanka

神圣的现代主义：解读斯里兰卡的“自然”政治

基本信息

批准号：
AH/G006903/1
负责人：
Tariq Jazeel
金额：
$ 3.18万
依托单位：
University of Sheffield
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG006903%2F1
关键词：
Sacred Modernisms reading politics nature

项目摘要

The proposed research builds on work I have been doing in recent years that explores the politics of nature in Sri Lanka. I aim to publish the first book-length research monograph to examine this theme in depth. Recently, cultural geography has shown that nature, as it is commonly understood in different spaces, is an inescapably social and cultural construction. Our taken-for-granted assumptions about what nature is, including race and identity, are in fact produced through forms of cultural representation and experience. Sacred Modernisms sets out to explore how ideas and experiences of race, identity and nation in Sri Lanka (which since 1983 have all been violently contested) are in part produced through taken-for-granted experiences of different kinds of nature. The two key questions of this research concern: 1) What are the politics of nature in the Sri Lankan context? 2) What research methods and processes are required to make visible these Sri Lankan politics of nature? The project pursues these research questions through a book-length research monograph divided into three parts. Part I explores the nature and landscape histories and experiences in Sri Lanka's most famous national park; Ruhuna (Yala) National Park. Part II examines the relationships between built-space and the natural environment in Sri Lanka's 'tropical-modern' architecture, and part III focuses on a significant natural-disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Each of these parts expands on the political dimensions of human engagements with very different kinds of nature and space. As such, the monograph enacts a thorough, rigorous and comprehensive engagement with the politics of different kinds of Sri Lankan natures.This research is important for two reasons. Firstly, the use of a South Asian (Sri Lankan) case-study offers important new insights to scholarship on the cultural geographies of nature. In 1972, Buddhism / the religion of the majority ethnically Sinhalese population / was written into the Sri Lanka's constitution. My research has shown how Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics are predominant in all three spaces of nature that the monograph explores. This presents a problem for the cultural geographer because in Buddhist philosophy there is no distinction between nature and culture; there is no 'nature', instead just dharma (energy) experienced intuitively. Therefore, this project opens cultural geographical scholarship up to natural spaces and experiences that cannot be fully understood through the term 'nature'. Second, this cultural geographical engagement of nature provides much needed insights to the political dimensions of everyday life in Sri Lanka. Recent research within South Asian studies, especially Sri Lankan studies, has been trying to develop understandings of the many ways that politics permeates everyday life. By exploring human experiences within different spaces of nature in Sri Lanka, this research contributes an urgently required understanding of how some of the most ordinary aspects of everyday life connect up to Sri Lanka's violently contested national politics.

拟议的研究建立在我近年来一直在做的工作，探索斯里兰卡的自然政治。我的目标是出版第一本书长度的研究专著，深入探讨这一主题。最近，文化地理学表明，自然，因为它通常被理解为在不同的空间，是一个不可避免的社会和文化建设。我们对自然是什么的想当然的假设，包括种族和身份，实际上是通过文化表现和经验的形式产生的。神圣现代主义开始探索斯里兰卡的种族，身份和国家的想法和经验（自1983年以来一直受到激烈的争议）是如何通过不同性质的理所当然的经验产生的。本研究关注的两个关键问题：1）斯里兰卡背景下的自然政治是什么？2)需要什么样的研究方法和过程才能让这些斯里兰卡的自然政治变得可见？该项目通过一本书长的研究专着（分为三个部分）来探讨这些研究问题。第一部分探讨自然和景观的历史和经验，在斯里兰卡最著名的国家公园;鲁胡纳（亚拉）国家公园。第二部分探讨了斯里兰卡“热带现代”建筑中建筑空间与自然环境之间的关系，第三部分重点介绍了2004年印度洋海啸这一重大自然灾害。每一部分都扩展了人类与不同类型的自然和空间的接触的政治层面。因此，这本专著对斯里兰卡不同性质的政治进行了彻底、严格和全面的研究。首先，南亚（斯里兰卡）的案例研究的使用提供了重要的新的见解，自然的文化地理学的奖学金。1972年，佛教（僧伽罗人的主要宗教）被写入斯里兰卡宪法。我的研究表明，佛教哲学和美学如何在专著所探讨的所有三个自然空间中占据主导地位。这给文化地理学家提出了一个问题，因为在佛教哲学中，自然和文化之间没有区别;没有“自然”，而只是直观地体验到的佛法（能量）。因此，该项目打开了文化地理奖学金，以自然空间和经验，不能通过“自然”一词完全理解。其次，这种文化地理参与的性质提供了急需的见解，斯里兰卡日常生活的政治层面。最近的南亚研究，特别是斯里兰卡研究，一直试图发展政治渗透日常生活的许多方式的理解。通过探索斯里兰卡不同自然空间内的人类经验，这项研究有助于迫切需要了解日常生活中一些最普通的方面如何与斯里兰卡激烈竞争的国家政治联系起来。