9th ICSLS Abstracts Index

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9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies
" Sri Lanka at Crossroads: Continuity and Change "
28-30 November 2003, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka.

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		Agriculture and Extension Services Unhealthy practices of pesticide use by farmers in a village in Puttalam District 8 Pesticides: A growing health hazard in Sri Lanka 9 Characteristics of rice consumption in Sri Lanka: Prospects for sustainability of the domestic rice production 10 Sri Lankan agriculture at crossroads: crisis or opportunity? 11 [BACK TO TOP] Business Management Extending UMM with Speech Acts 1 A neglected aspect of business: Human and social capital in the Sri Lankan tea plantation sector 2 The impact of socio-cultural background on management and business practices of selected small and medium scale business in Sri Lanka 103 Structure and agency in entrepreneurship research: An alternative research framework 75 Cultural barriers against development of domestic industries: the case of small and medium food processing enterprises in Sri Lanka 76 Are Sri Lankans motivated by the need for achievement? 99 Economic aspects of Sri Lankan gem industry 135 Towards a knowledge-based economy: Enhancing technological and innovation capabilities of SMEs in Sri Lanka 77 Labour productivity and openness of manufacturing industry of Guangdong, China 78 Colonial hotels - their contribution towards cultural heritage tourism in Sri Lanka 80 Factors determining the performance of rural micro-enterprises in Sri Lanka: the case of Matara District 110 Theory, surprise and reality: exploring the world of the Sri Lankan entrepreneur 98 Entrepreneurial characteristics of Jaffna investors 139 Managing investment incentives in tourism development: evidence from Sri Lanka 133 Industrialization of Hainan SEZ: Reality, countermeasures and the industrialization index 79 Government audit: A review of employees’ attitudes on public sector enterprises in Sri Lanka 170 The demand for money in Sri Lanka: A structural vector error correction approach 91 The Impact of foreign direct investment for economic growth (A case study of Sri Lanka) 92 Macroeconomic influence on the stock market: Evidence from an emerging market in South Asia 90 The effects of financial liberalization on market structure, financial intermediate and savings mobilization – A case study in Sri Lanka 111 The factors causing informal sector more attractive in rural financial markets as providers of credit 127 Precepts and practice of bureaucracy 102 Deconstructing “Management” and its implications for learning and teaching of management in Sri Lanka 3 Habermasian way of understanding information systems deployment in organizations in Sri Lanka 106 A research agenda for strategic management research in developing countries 12 [BACK TO TOP ] Children & Society Child work, attendance and school performance 21 Prevalence of under-nutrition among pre-school children from low-income groups in Colombo : Impact of low quality and quantity of nutrient intakes 160 Preschool children and violence: Psychological profile 169 Malnutrition in pre-School children of Jaffna Society- A post - exodus statistical perspective 96 The worst from of child labor: Commercial sex in Sri Lanka 149 Children in insurrection with special reference to the ethnic insurrection of Sri Lanka 167 [BACK TO TOP ] Economic Growth & Development Measuring international competitiveness 147 Community governance in rural development 93 A comparative study of the development indicators of Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia 95 Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka: Implications for India’s security 119 Outward orientation: Economic development policy for small economies 94 Total factor productivity dynamics of manufacturing industries in Sri Lanka in the post-trade liberalization period 87 Understanding the Sri Lankan consumer preferences: A system-wide analysis 86 The economy-wide impact of total factor productivity growth of manufacturing industries in Sri Lanka: A computable general equilibrium approach 88 Technical efficiency and the productivity imperative in the manufacturing industries in Sri Lanka 89 [BACK TO TOP ] Education & Employment Employer needs and graduate skills: The gap between employer expectations and job expectations of Sri Lankan university graduates 29 Education and employment in Sri Lanka: A look toward the future 31 How should we reform the higher education system in Sri Lanka? 27 Education as a vehicle for professionalisation and social mobility: A critical review of the process and outcomes from a biographical perspective 28 Returns to over-education in Sri Lanka 30 [BACK TO TOP ] Education & Information Technology Deductive formal proof in geometry: Implications for instructional practices 22 Developing conceptual understanding of chemical equilibrium through the use of computer-based visualization software 23 Sri Lankans playing with Mac’s: Insights into the ‘mind tools’ needed for computer learning 24 [BACK TO TOP ] Emerging issues in Environment and Climatic Change Rethinking vulnerability to climate change in Sri Lanka 4 Defining security negotiating rights: The influence of environmental impact assessment legislation 5 Designing a visitors' eco-trail for nature conservation in Horton Plains National Park, Sri Lanka 7 Environmental economics: A review of Sri Lankan studies 6 Environmental movements in Sri Lanka 100 [BACK TO TOP ] Ethnic Conflict Knowledge of conflict and ethnicity; young people and reintegration of communities in the north of Sri Lanka 42 Forward process of conflict analysis: An application to the Sri Lankan conflict 43 Norway, a 25 year odyssey: From sympathiser to colonial intruder 60 Responses of the majority community to the ethnic conflict in a multi ethnic society: A study of the present conflict of Sri Lanka 152 British colonialization: Origin of the racial conflict in Sri Lanka (1796-1947) 40 Interplay between competition for scarce resources and identity issues in the May 2001 Riots of Mawanella 44 Ethnic riots as an aspect of changing ethnic relations in Sri Lanka 45 A study on the impact of war on the Portuguese Burghers of Batticaloa 46 [BACK TO TOP ] Ethnicity & Culture The “multi-ethnicisation and “multi-religionisation” of Sri Lanka: Unwrapping the sociological pretensions of minoritarian ideologies 117 Historical significance of the recent discovery of Tamils' Coins of the period before 2000 years in Sri Lanka 115 Sri Lanka as a key international centre of intellectual discourse: A historical perspective with special reference to Southeast Asia 8 The people of Sri Lanka-and their origins 144 Dutch Burgherdom in Sri Lanka and Australia: Cultural crossroads and changing identities incorporating migrant reminiscences of Sri Lanka. 38 Citizenship, stateless persons and ethno-cultural identity consolidation in the post-colonial Sri Lanka 39 [BACK TO TOP] Fiction, Music & Social Reality Because Pigs Can Fly: ‘Race’, sexuality and difference in Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” 34 Growing up female in Sri Lanka: A feminist perspective of Punyakante Wijenaike's A Way of Life 107 ''With Your Milk, Mother, I Swallowed Ice": An analysis of the mother-daughter relationship in Punyakante Wijenaike's The Waiting Earth 113 Modernization of south Indian classical music concerts 14 Image of Otherness during the Conflict and Quest of Oneness Beyond– Jean Arasanayagam: The writer’s empathy and the reader’s agenda 33 Changing Faces: The Sri Lankan woman in stories of migration 32 [BACK TO TOP] Foreign Policy & International Relations Simhala-Tamil reconciliation and the Indian connection 55 Sri Lanka's foreign policy since 1994 57 Maritime security of India and Sri Lanka 59 India-Sri Lanka relations: The Biography of a non-policy 56 [BACK TO TOP] Gender & Society Social dimension of domestic violence 61 The role of women in coconut-based income generation activities in Sri Lanka 62 Conflict and survival: Sinhala female-headship in eastern Sri Lanka 63 Mundane heroines: Factoring gender and ethnicity into female-headship 64 Migrant female domestic labor: Answer to rural poverty in the context of globalization? 65 Human resource management: A postmodern reading 66 Violence against migrant workers: The case of female migrants from Sri Lanka 155 Position of women in Hinduism and Buddhism: A comparative perspective 165 Harassment of Sri Lankan female employees in the Middle East and its reproductive health consequences 171 Factors affecting the success of micro level women entrepreneurs in southern province in Sri Lanka 146 Women entrepreneurs in Jaffna: Origins and characteristics 140 [ BACK TO TOP] Health, Illness & Society Unripe and ripe concepts in ayurveda and treatment behavior: A sociological review 143 Lesson learnt on an endemic problem in the Dry Zone Sri Lanka: With special focus on Monaragala District 84 Social and Psychological factors associated to infertility and their consequences on quality of life of infertile couples in Sri Lanka 166 [BACK TO TOP] Land Policies & Management The variability of rainfall in relation to land use in the Hambantota District 153 Land readjustment as a land management technique for urban areas 108 Monitoring temporal land use/land cover changes using RS/GIS techniques in war ravaged northern Sri Lanka 13 [BACK TO TOP] Linguistic Training and Understanding Some computational aspects of natural language understanding: A case study on Spoken Sinhala 15 Impact of English loan words on modern Sinhala 17 The Vocabulary of Sri Lankan English: Word & phrases that transform a foreign language into Sri Lankas' own 26 [BACK TO TOP] National Defence The role of disinformation and misinformation in the Tamil Eelam Project 41 Psychological operations, LTTE and Sri Lanka 97 Indo-Sri Lanka fishermen’s conflict in the north sea of Sri Lanka 101 Massacre of surrendered 600 Policemen of Sri Lanka: A case for a war crime? 137 [BACK TO TOP] National Politics Graveyard of Peace? Spatial politics and political geographies in post-war Sri Lanka 47 Good governance is a salutary influence over world politics 48 The Actor and the President: Assassination politics in Sri Lanka* 49 Designing state through democracy in Sri Lanka: Legacies and challenges 53 Role of national defense as a public good: The case of Sri Lanka 54 Composite nationalism and contesting nationalities in the post-colonial Sri Lanka: Dynamics and implications 52 Foreign funds and the assault on sovereignty and truth 51 Constitution-Making and conflict management: A comparative study on South Africa and Sri Lanka 172 South Indian DMK and Sri Lankan Helahaula: Similar origin but different trajectories 148 Reflections on the Indian perspectives of the geo-strategic importance of Sri Lanka 116 A Critical reading of the Jathika Chinthanaya 50 [BACK TO TOP] Peace Building & Social Harmony Peaceful Identities? cosmopolitanism and civic peace building in Sri Lanka 35 Are Sri Lankans with the Peace Process? 145 Greed and peace 141 War and ethnic identity in an ethnically mixed village community in Panama Village in the Ampara District of Sri Lanka 114 Risking peace: Comparing mistrust-reducing strategies in the Sri Lankan peace processes 154 Transition from war to peace: A sociological study to facilitate social reconstruction process in the war-torn areas of north and east of Sri Lanka 37 Federalism: An alternative or a gateway to separation 159 Buddhist Sangha and Peace Process 36 Panama: A historical study 150 [BACK TO TOP] Pedagogical Issues in Teaching & Learning Perceived stress in a sample of G. C. E. (A/L) students in Sri Lankan schools 16 Teaching English in urban Sri Lanka: Some pedagogical issues 19 A Sri Lankan variety of English?. Exploding fallacy 126 ‘English Language at the Crossroads’ 18 Student perceptions of a new course: a study in relation to the course unit system in the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya 20 Consistency and variability in learning strategies and conceptions of learning among a group of third year medical students in Sri Lanka 25 Construction of Small Group Instructional Techniques (SGIT) in higher education teaching in Sri Lankan context; a requirement of the change 109 [BACK TO TOP] Poverty Alleviation Impact of micro financing on empowerment of rural women through Samurdi bank associations 161 Three wheeler taxies as an urban poverty reducing instrument in Sri Lanka 81 Grameen banks and empowerment of the women 83 At the periphery of development: Poverty trends in Hambantota District 82 Targeting Samurdhi Group Credit: Who participates and why 124 The impact of food stamps and micro-finance on household welfare: evidence from Sri Lanka 125 Beyond Regaining Sri Lanka, PRSP RRR: Towards a Participatory Paradigm 156 Keeping the People’s Surplus in the People’s Hands: The Ranna Story 157 Fundamentals for poverty eradication in Sri Lanka and the Three-Sector Growth Model 158 [BACK TO TOP] Religion & Society Archaeological heritage management: Historical analysis of the concepts and forms of Buddhist monasteries 151 Mutual fulfillment (annamannam paripuri): educational goal of Buddhism 138 Boundaries and identities: construction of identities through religious festivals 130 Panadura Vaadaya: An anti-colonial struggle distorted by contemporary colonial scholars 121 The return to colonial policies and Christian dominance 122 A comparative analysis on the Cessation Attainment 142 Indian reformers in Sri Lanka: Guru Nanak's visit- A myth or reality? 69 Gross under-representation of Buddhists in the Lake House Group English Newspapers 70 Imagining non western civilizations: Obeyesekera on Karma and Buddhism 71 ‘Round-pilgrimages’ and the spiritual landscape 67 Towards an alternative development paradigm based on Buddhism's Middle Path-to solve national and global problems 68 Committing suicide: a Buddhist perspective 129 [BACK TO TOP] Social Order & Social Relations "Kultur -haramanis" clash: A participant's perspective of social origins of Sri Lankan sociology 136 Land ownership, caste and poverty in a changing Kandyan Village 134 Strategies of maintaining social order in pre-modern Sri Lanka 74 Social factors in English studies: persistence of colonial attitudes among Buddhists? 118 Transformational leadership in the Sri Lanka context: A theoretical and empirical investigation 128 Civil society’s role in the process of rehabilitating the prisoners 72 The dynamics of social relations in Sri Lanka: An approach through an analysis of cricket 73 [BACK TO TOP] Southern Province Development Economic development and its effect on the behaviour of lagoon fishermen in southern Sri Lanka 123 Financial institutions and Southern Province entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka 112 Demand side factors of food security: Empirical evidences From Moneragala District: Sri Lanka 85 [BACK TO TOP] Urban Living A measure of urban livelihood vulnerability: The case of Colombo 162 Slums, squatter areas and informal settlements: Do they block or help urban sustainability in developing contexts 163 Liberalized economic policies and occupational changes of Colombo City 168 Conservation of historical residential buildings in urban settings 120 Sustainability of informal small businesses associated with urban slums and shanties in Sri Lanka: The case of Wanathamulla 131 [BACK TO TOP] Water Resource Management An assessment of the importance of National Water Resources Management Policy for Sri Lanka and its effectiveness 104 The water regulation technology of ancient Sri Lankan reservoirs: The Bisokotuwa sluice 164 An economic analysis of private sector bulk water consumption in the Deduruoya River Basin 105 \Effects of water level increase in Malala lagoon on bio-physical, socio-economic systems and use of local level natural resources 132 [BACK TO TOP]
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