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Venugopal, Rajesh 2015. Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Postwar Sri Lanka: Explaining the Grease Devil Crisis. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 74, Issue. 03, p. 615.
Venugopal, Rajesh 2015. Democracy, development and the executive presidency in Sri Lanka. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue. 4, p. 670.
Bastin, Rohan 2014. Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts.
Taulbee, James Larry Kelleher, Ann and Grosvenor, Peter C. 2014. Norway's Peace Policy.
This paper explores the politics of Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the post-1994 period, when it re-created itself as a mainstream parliamentary political party and came to play a critical role in the collapse of the 2001–2004 peace process. The fundamental analytical enigma of the JVP lies in explaining its hybrid Marxist/Sinhala nationalist persona, which enabled it to craft a highly effective campaign of opposition to the Ranil Wickremasinghe government's two-track agenda of peace with market reforms. This paper examines how the JVP's Marxism relates to its Sinhala nationalism, and how it fits within the Sri Lanka's Marxist tradition as a whole. It argues that the JVP's increasing emphasis on Sinhala nationalism post-1999 has occurred in the context of de-radicalisation and parliamentary habilitation, and discusses the relevance of its ideological orientation to the material basis of Sinhala nationalism and its relationship with the social democratic state.
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