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. We illustrate how wider tensions between deconcentration and devolution play out in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, highlighting the key role performed by brokers in mediating centre-periphery relations, both through and alongside the Provincial Council.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 817-836 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Third World Thematics |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 15 Mar 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Thematics on 15 March 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23802014.2016.1302816
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Oliver Walton
- Department of Social & Policy Sciences - Reader
- Centre for Development Studies - Lecturer
- MENA Social Policy Network
- Centre for the Study of Violence
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