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

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Infrastructure; (supra)sacralization; environmental ontologies; Sri Lanka; BRI.; Asian Studies; Human Geography
• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...