Merit Economies in Neoliberal Times: Halal Troubles in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Haniffa, Farzana

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“…43 Field work in Sri Lanka in 2013. This is also documented in my essay of 2017 (Haniffa 2017). 44 Deeb 2006.…”

Section: Resolution Of the Halal Issuesupporting

confidence: 62%

“…This issue, however, was not foremost in the discussion regarding the halal certification process. For a fuller discussion of the halal crisis, see Haniffa 2017. When the halal controversy erupted in early 2013, there was no directive on halal by the Consumer Affairs Authority, or any other government body. The ACJU was accused -by the then-leader of the opposition, among others -of having no legal basis to provide certification.…”

Section: Resolution Of the Halal Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

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Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds

2021

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Books carry the names of their editors and authors. This book being the culmination of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient's research programme from 2008 to 2019, the names in this book only reflect some of the outcomes. Behind them were years of animated academic debate, intense research and multiple cooperations. Consequently, this volume is a collective effort by ZMO colleagues as well as the academic contributors to the conference from which it emerged.Beyond the academic contributors, not all of whom are represented in this volume, there was a dedicated group of people without whom this book might never have been completed. We are particularly grateful to Hannah Newbury for her careful language editing. Nele Brunner and Berenice Brüggemann were indispensable when it came to standardising the different styles of citation. We are very grateful to Dr. Sophie Wagenhofer for her support at De Gruyter. However, without Svenja Becherer's dedicated support, effective oversight and organisational talent, this book would perhaps never have seen the light of day.

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“…43 Field work in Sri Lanka in 2013. This is also documented in my essay of 2017 (Haniffa 2017). 44 Deeb 2006.…”

Section: Resolution Of the Halal Issuesupporting

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confidence: 99%

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“…The attacks against the Muslim community, which led to businesses, houses, and mosques being destroyed, were possible because the Mahinda Rajapaksa government tolerated the BBS and its ilk. Politics and cultural considerations rooted in Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism and economics have combined to unleash this Islamophobia (Haniffa 2017). But the ability of forces close to the government to operate with impunity was a big reason for the periodic, well-orchestrated postwar anti-Muslim rioting.…”

Section: Autocratization Under Mahinda Rajapaksamentioning

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Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

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2021

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The essays of this handbook dissect the trends towards creeping authoritarianism in South Asia. Even India, long a poster boy of "third world" democracy, appears to be catching up with its neighbours in a "non-democratic regime convergence". However, instead of merely confirming Huntington's deterministic pessimism regarding non-western democracy, or jumping on to wide-eyed bushy-tailed advocacy, authors of this important volume follow a third trajectory, based on fine-grained empirical analysis and empathy with their subject, within a comparative framework. This handbook should become an indispensable tool for the people of South Asia, as well as for outsiders looking in.'

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“…Among those who consider the economic basis of conflict, Haniffa (2016, 2017), Nuhman (2016), and Schonthal (2016) should be given more attention. While not denying the involvement of religious nationalist organizations, they consider the economic factors (but not religion) as the primary motivation behind post-war communal violence in Sri Lanka.…”

Section: The Relationship Between Religion and Out-group Intolerance In Sri Lanka: An Overviewmentioning

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“…According to Schonthal, what differentiates post-war religious nationalist organizations (from their historical counterparts) is that their claims are clearly business or capitalist in orientation, and religious out-groups are portrayed not merely as a religious threat but as forces “distorting and altering the patterns of production, consumption, wealth, demography, and industry in the country” (Schonthal, 2016: 111, 112). Haniffa (2017) poses a similar argument that inter-religious violence was mainly perpetrated against the out-group’s entrepreneurship and the trade facilities framed and precipitated by the logics of neoliberalism.…”

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Religious Identification on Facebook Visuals and (Online) Out-group Intolerance: Experimenting the Sri Lankan Case

Hasangani

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Following several online and offline ethno-religious tensions in 2018 and 2019, social media (Facebook in particular) has become one of the scapegoats for instigating ethnic intolerance in Sri Lanka. Conjecture suggests that increased religious commitment and frequently shared religious expressions on social media are responsible for provoking ethnic intolerance. Against that backdrop, the present study investigates to what extent Facebook graphics expressing out-group intolerance are associated with in-group religious identification by analysing a sample of graphics posted on Facebook by a Sinhala-Buddhist community from 2011 to 2018. The findings reject the religious rationale and reveal that increased in-group religious identification does not necessarily characterize ethnically intolerant visual content on Facebook. Instead, online ethnic intolerance can be better attributed to threat perceptions and conspiracy theories.

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Merit Economies in Neoliberal Times: Halal Troubles in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Cited by 8 publications

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Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds

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