Infrastructure's (supra)sacralizing effects: Contesting littoral spaces of fishing, faith, and futurity along Sri Lanka's western coastline

This paper explores the ways in which infrastructural development can cause the sacred to become a source of political legitimacy, and sacred authority to become a politically charged construct. For resource-dependent communities, the ecological damage caused by infrastructural development can cause...

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Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3608
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4866/viewcontent/InfrastructureSupraSacralizing_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English