Research with abstracts

  • 1986e - Environmental Health and Community Development Project :A case study in the Slums and Shanties of Colombo, in Cheema, G. S. (ed.) Reaching the Urban Poor, Westview Press, Boulder, 101-124. (Co-authored with Tilakaratne, S. and Karunaratne, W.)
  • 1987a - Diagnostic Analysis of Irrigation Systems, (Sociology ), Minneriya Irrigation Scheme, Sri Lanka, Water Management Synthesis Project, Colorado State University, U.S.A.
  • 1987b - Diagnostic Analysis of Irrigation Systems, Kaudulla Scheme, Sri Lanka, WMSP, C.S.U., U.S.A.
  • 1987c - Alcoholism in Sri Lanka : recent trends, in Erikson, et.al. (eds.) Alcohol and Drugs ; perspectives, prevention and control,Colombo: Alcohol and Drug Information Centre
  • 1988c - Social Research on Alcohol in Sri Lanka ; Issues and prospects, paper presented at the Conference on Alcohol Research in Developing Countries, published in Developing countries, published in Maula, J. et. al. (eds.) Alcohol in Developing Countries, NAD Publication No.18, Helsinki, 1990
  • 1990a - The Urban Informal Sector and the Politico-Economic Process : recent trends with particular reference to Colombo, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Sri Lanka Association of Economists, Colombo, June 9, 1990, published in Upanathi, Vol.4, No.1 & 2.
  • 1991d - Migration of Rural workers to the Middle East : Economic Gains and Social Costs, paper presented at the 4th Sri Lanka Studies Conference, Amsterdam, published in Marga Quarterly Journal. Vol. 11, No. 2
  • 1992c- Social Harmony and Social Progress in a Plural Society. 33rd Bandaranaike Memorial Lecture, Colombo, published in Law and Society Review. Vol. III, No. 50
  • 1992d - Sustainable Development and the Environment in Sri Lanka : Some Sociological Issues, paper presented at the Seminar on sustainable Development NARESA, Colombo, published in the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science, 1993)
  • 1996a - Pseudo Modernization and Its Impact on the Process of Nation-building in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the Regional Conference of the ISA, Mumbai, Inidia, published in Mukharji, P. et. al. (eds.) Sociology in South Asia, Heritage and Challenges, ISA, Montreal, Canada
  • 1996e - Economic Liberalization and Health Policy in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, September 2- 6, 1996, Peebles, Scotland
  • 1996h - Development, Consumption Patterns and Energy Use in Modern Societies, Economic Review, A People’s Publication, Vol. 22 No. 5, 1996
  • 1997d - Social Structural Change and the Changing Position of Women in Sri Lanka, in Cenwor Document Series No 60, 23-36, Colombo
  • 1998a - Economic Interests and Social Concerns: recent trends in the alcohol economy of Sri Lanka, paper presented at the Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium, Florance, Italy, June 1-5, 1998
  • 1998e - Challenges and Opportunities for Asian Youth in the 21st Century, paper presented at the 4th Asian Youth Studies Conference, Macau, Nov.26-30, 1998
  • 1999c - Impact of Economic Change on Social Inequality, paper presented at the 7th Sri Lankan Studies Conference, December 3 – 6, 1999, Canberra
  • 2000d - Ethnicity and the Changing urban landscape: The case of Colombo paper presented at IUAES, Inter Congress on the Metropolitan Ethnic cultures. Beijing, China, July, 2000
  • 2000h- “Development of Social Science Education” (With Karunanayake M.M.) in- S.Tilakaratne and H.M.P. Gunasena (eds.) University Education Since Independence, Colombo: University Grants Commission
  • 2001b - ‘Consumerism, Youth and Identity formation’ in Hettige, S.T. et.al, Globalization Electronic Media and Cultural Change,Colombo: Germen Cultural Institute
  • 2004c - Migration of Labour to the Middle East and its Social Policy Implications, paper presented at the Modern South Asian Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany 2004d - Ethnicity vs. Nationalism: The Devolution Discourse in Sri Lanka (Book Review), Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science 2004-27 14
  • 2006b - Education and Employment in a liberal Economic Environment, in Abstracts, ISA, 2006 – 107
  • 2007a - Peace, Conflict and Development: A Macro Sociological Perspective, in Beyond Borders, The SAARC Journal of Literature, Ideas and Arts, New Delhi, vol. 3, No. 1,Spring
  • 1983a - Agrarian Change and the Role of the Entrepreneurial Farmer in the Sri Lanka Journal of Agrarian Studies, Vol.3, No.1.
  • 1983b - Social Segregation as a Mode of Adjustment in an Under-developed Urban Situation, paper presented at the annual sessions of the Sri LankaAssociation for the Advancement of Science(SLAAS), Colombo. (Revised and published in Vidyodaya Journal of Social Science)
  • 1984a - Social Stratification, Social Mobility and Bureaucracy in Sri Lanka, in Nanayakkara, et. al. (eds.) Management in a Socio-Cultural Context, German Cultural Institute, Colombo
  • 1984b - Education in Sri Lanka: Some general observations, in Economic Review, May 1984, Colombo
  • 1987d - Potential Contribution of State Monopoly Systems to the Control of Alcohol Related Problems, a conference communication compiled by me, published by WHO, Geneva
  • 1988d - Diagnostic Analysis of irrigation Systems in Polonnaruwa District, Inter-Disciplinary Report, WMS Project, C.S.U., U.S.A. (with Nelson, et. Al)
  • 1990b - Irrigation Systems Management Project, Midterm Evaluation with Rassas, et. al. ISPAN Report No. 34, Washington, D.C.
  • 1991a - Three Migration Pockets : A Sociological View Point, in Eelens, F. et. al. (eds.) Labour Migration to the Middle East, Kegan Paul, London, 1992
  • 1991e - Alcoholism, Health and Poverty in Rural Sri Lanka, Paper presented at the ICAA Institute, Stockholm, June 1991
  • 1993 a - Social Disintegration and Youth Discontent, paper presented at the Sri Lanka Studies Conference, 10-13, August 1993, Colombo
  • 1994a - Sociology of Poverty Alleviation: A critical Analysis of the Poverty Alleviation Program in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany
  • 1994c - Globalization and Reactive Nationalism, The Case of the Southern Rural Youth Movement in Sri Lanka, in Sociological Abstracts, 42-7, p.135.
  • 1995a - Globalization and Social Transformation at the Periphery, paper presented at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 13
  • 1996b - Class Polarities and Cultural Bridges, paper presented at the American Studies Association of Sri Lanka Seminar on Multi-culturalism, March 16, 1995, Weligama, Sri Lanka
  • 1997a - Conflict over Water Resources: the Case of Mahaweli, paper presented at the Seminar on Socio-economic Factors affecting Sustainable Development, Colombo: NARESA
  • 1997e - Is there a Crisis in the Social Sciences ?, Presidential Address, SLAAS, Section F, delivered at the Annual Sessions held at the University of Ruhuna, Matara, December 10, 1997
  • 1998b - Understanding Youth Unrest: towards a conceptual framework, paper presented at the ISA World Congress, July 1998, Montreal, Canada. 12
  • 1998f - Persisting and Emerging Trends in the Healthcare System of Sri Lanka, paper presented at the 4th APSSAM Conference, December 7-11, 1998, Yojyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2000a - Politics, Social Order and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the Conference on Rule of Law and the Organization of the State, Friburg, Switzerland, October 8-11, 1998, (forthcoming)
  • 2000e - Knowledge Economy and Youth Employment in Asia: Myths and Realities, paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Asian Youth Studies, Dec. 1 – 5, 2000, Macau
  • 2000i - Methodology in Social Research Essays in Honor of Ramakrishna Mukherjee (Book Review), in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science 2002 -23
  • 2001c - Empowering Local Communities Through Devolution of Power in Sri lanka; the Unfinished Agenda, Governance Journal, Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance, 21- 31, Vol. 1 No.01
  • 2004a- Economic Growth and Social Polarization under Globalization, in Glatzer, W.(ed.) Rich and Poor: Disparities, Perceptions and Concomitants, Dordrechts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 203-216
  • 2005a - “Colombo” in Nas Peter (ed) – Diversities of Urban Change in Asia, London: Routledge
  • 2006c - Report on Participatory Development Planning and Budgeting of Local Authorities in Sri Lanka, 2006
  • 2007b - Modernization, Education and Social Justice in Sri Lanka in Kumar, K. and Oesterheld, J. (eds.) Education and Social Change in South Asia, New Delhi: Orient Longaman Ltd
  • 2008a - Local Democracy: The Sri Lankan Experience in Gellner, D and Hachchetu, K. (eds) Local Government in South Asia: Micro – processes of Democratization in Nepal and its neighbors, Delhi: Sage Publications
  • 2008c - Policy, State, Nation- state and Ethnicity in Sri Lanka, in Embong, A.R. (ed.).)Rethinking Ethnicity & Nation – Building, Malaysia, Sri 15
  • Lanka&Fiji in Comparative PerspectiveKuala Lumpur: PersatuanSainsSosial Malaysia (co-authored with Thangarajah, Yuvi). 2008d - Public policies and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka, inTarling,N
  • 2008e- Urban ambiance, meaning and emotion: The symbolic spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka in Telban, B. (ed.) Anthropological Notebooks XIV/III, Liubliana University Press
  • 2009b - Youth Activism in Sri Lanka: the case of the JVP, in Gellner, D. (ed.) Political Activism in South Asia, Delhi: Sage
  • 2011 a- Building Citizenship in Sri Lanka: The Dynamics of State-Action and Ethnic Conflicts in Bhattacharya, et. al. (eds.) The Politics of Citizenship, Identity and the State in South Asia, Delhi: Samskriti Publishers
  • 2011c- Emotion in the Symbolic Spectrum of Colombo, Sri Lanka in Peter J.M. (ed.) Cities Full of Symbols: A Theory of Urban Space and Culture, .Amsterdam: Leiden University Press
  • 2013- Social Protection Policies in the Urban Informal Sector in Sri Lanka in Chandoke, N. Agrawal S.J.(eds.) Social Protection Policies in South Asia,India:Routledge
  • 2013- Sri Lanak’s Education System the Answer to National Integration, East Asia Forum, December 30, 2013(http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/12/28/sri-lankas-education-system-the-answer-to-national-integration/ )
  • 2015 Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Sri Lanka in Kalleberg, A.L. and Hewison, K. (eds.) Confronting Precarious Work in Asia, Taipei: Academia Sinica, forthcoming
  • 2016 Higher Education and Social Change in South Asia: From Intellectual Elitism to Equality of opportunity, in Furlong, A. and Cote, J. (eds.) Handbook of Higher Education, London
  • 1986a - Some Aspects of Mass Communication Research with Special Reference to Sri Lanka, in PresentState of TV Research in Sri Lanka, Rupavahini Corporation of Sri Lanka, Colombo
  • Serving the Urban Poor through Micro-level Social Planning, consultancy report submitted to UNICEF
  • 1986c - Training Needs of Rural Workers in Sri Lanka, Colombo:ILO/Ministry of Labour. 8
  • 1986d - Commercialization of Agriculture and the Subsistence Orientation of Peasant Life, paper presented at the annual sessions of the SLAAS, Colombo
  • 1988b - Culture, Morality and Female Migration, in Vidyodaya Journal of Social Science, Vol.2, No.10, 1989
  • 1989a - Social Networks and Exchange of Favours among Middle Level Officials in Organizations in Sri Lanka, paper based on field research supported by NARESA, Sri Lanka, to be published in the Sri Lanka Journal of the Social Science, Vol.12, No.1 & 2
  • 1990d - Patterns of Subsistence Reproduction among Settled Urban Poor : a Case Study from Sri Lanka, in Urban Anthropology, 1990 Fall
  • 1991c - Human Resource Development in Sri Lanka : A Sociological Perspective, paper presented at the Conference on Social Science Contribution to HRD, NARESA, Colombo, published in Sri LankaJournal of Development Administration, Vol. 8, No. 1
  • 1992b - Health and Poverty ; some policy issues, paper presented at the Regional Seminar on health policy, organized by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, 16-19, March 1992, New Delhi
  • 1993c - Open Economy and the Marginalization of Rural Youth in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the SLAAS, Colombo
  • 1995c- Integrated Rural Development in the Context of Poverty Alleviation, in Senaratne, J.L. et. al. (eds.) Integrated Rural Development Programme: 15 Years of Experience in Sri Lanka, Colombo: Regional Development Division, Ministry of Finance and Planning
  • 1996d - Social Conflicts over Water Resources: the Case of Mahaweli in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the International Conference on Livelihoods from Resource Flows, August 19-22, 1996, Lincorping, Sweden. 11
  • 1996g - Global Integration and Disadvantaged Youth, paper presented at the Seminar on Youth in Transitional Societies, Colombo, October 25-26, 1996
  • 1997c - Economic Liberalization, Social Class and Ethnicity: Emerging Trends and Conflicts in South Asia, Vol. xx, Special Issue, 1997
  • 1997g - Socio-economic Issues relating to the Sustainability of the Mahaweli Upper Catchments, in SLJSS, Vol. 20, No. 1 &2, 1997
  • 1998d - Social Aspects of the Emerging Urban Landscape in Colombo, paper presented at the Seminar on City as a Social Space, Nov. 19, Colombo
  • 1999b - Economic Liberalization, Qualifications and Livelihoods, in Assessment in Education, Volume 7, No. 2
  • 2000c - Alcohol Prevalence among Sri Lankan Youth: some evidence from the National Youth Survey, paper presented at the Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium, Oslo, Norway,June 4-10, 2000
  • 2000g- “Politics, Social Order and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka” in – (eds.) Lidija R. BastaFleiner -et. al. Rule of Law and Organization of the Sate in Asia: The multicultural State in Asia, Munich:Helbing&Lichtenhahn
  • 2001a - “Knowledge Economy and Youth Employment in Asia : Myths and Realities” in – Proceedings, Welfare Printing Limited : Macau, 222 –229
  • 2003 - Economic Liberalization, Changing Opportunity Structures and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Winslow, D. and Woost, M. (eds.) Economy, Culture and Civil War in Sri Lanka, Bloomington, Indiana University Press
  • 2004b - Pseudo- Modernization and the Formation of Youth Identities in Sri Lanka, is Mukherji, P. and Sengupta, (eds.) Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science, New Delhi: Sage Publications
  • 2006a - Conflict and Development in the context of Sri Lanka, in The Journal of the Indian Sociological Society
  • 2006d - Measuring Vulnerability at Local Level in Birkmann, J. (ed) Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards, Tokyo: United Nations University Press (article co- authored with John Birkmann and Nishara Fernando)
  • 1975 Chapter on Feudal Society in Textbook on sociology for HNCE, Colombo: Department of Education.
  • 1984c - Social Differentiation and its Implications for Collective Action in Lower Class Urban Communities, paper presented at the annual sessions of the SLASS, Colombo
  • 1985a - Seasonal Influx of Agricultural Labour and Agrarian Relations in a Sinhalese Village in the North Central Province, in Brow, J. and Weeramunda, A. J. (eds.), Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka. Sage Publications, London. A substantially revised version is also published in Colombo University Review, Vol. 9. 1990
  • 1985b - Ideology of Peasant Proprietorship and Agrarian Policy in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the annual sessions of the SLAAS, Colombo
  • 1988a - Middle East Migration, Social Stratification and Social Mobility in Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science, No.10. No.122
  • 1988e - Migration of Sri Lankan Workers to the Middle East :A Sociological View, in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science, Vol.11, No.1 & 2
  • 1990c - From Dependent House-wives to Bread-winners : some aspects of migration of female workers to the Middle East in Women in Povertyand Family Survival, CENWOR, Colombo.
  • 1991b - Upper and Lower Circuits in Urban-Rural Exchange Relations in Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science, Vol. 13, No.2
  • 1992a - Youth Unrest in Sri Lanka : A Sociological Perspective, in Hettige,S.T. (ed.) Unrest or Revolt: some aspects of youth unrest in Sri Lanka, Colombo: German Cultural Institute.
  • 1993b - The State, Consumerism and Alcohol in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at the Symposium on Consumption : Risks, Pleasures and the State in Contemporary Capitalism, June, 1993, Helsinki
  • 1994b - Globalization and Reactive Nationalism, papers to be presented at the xiiith World Congress of Sociology, July 18-23, 1994 - Bielefeld, Germany
  • 1995b - Dismantling the State Sector in Sri Lanka: Are the Problems Behind Us?, paper presented at the South Asia Program, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY
  • 1996c- Impact of Economic Liberalization on Social Inequality, in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2.
  • 1996f- Pseudo-Modernization and the Formation of Youth Identities in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the Seminar on Youth in Transitional Societies, Colombo, October 25-26, 1996
  • 1997b - Globalization and Local Cultures: recent trends in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the National Seminar on Globalization and Local Cultures, Colombo: NARESA
  • 1997f - Democracy, Ethno-nationalist Politics and Patronage: Sri Lankan Style (with SiriGamage), in Asian Studies Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 & 3, Nov. 1997
  • 1998c - Economic Liberalism, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods: a critical analysis of the national agricultural policy of Sri Lanka, paper presented at the ISA World Congress, July 1998, Montreal, Canada
  • 1999a - Transformation of Society in Lakshman, W.D. and Tisdell, C.A (eds.)Sri Lanka's Economic Development since Independence, New York; Nova Science Publishers
  • 2000b - Impact of market expansion on quality of Healthcare, paper presented at the world Health Forum, InterlakenSwitzerland, May 10 -13, 2000
  • 2000f - Emerging Issues of Healthcare Reform in Sri Lanka, Paper presented at the AsiaPacific Regional Health Social Science Conference, Sri Lanka, Sept 24 – 28, 2000 13
  • 2000j- Understanding Sri Lankan Youth: Some Selected Aspects and Illustrated Data, National Youth Survey-1999, CASS, 2000
  • 2002 - Globalization and Its Impact on Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science 2002- 25
  • 2004e - Devolution of Power: Theory and Practice, Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance, Governance Journal, 1-5, Vol. No. 03
  • 2005c - Peace, Conflict and Development in the context of Sri Lanka, in Sociological Bulletin, vol. 54, No3
  • 2005d - Empowering Local Communities for Better Poverty Monitoring and Planning in Sri Lanka, in New Challenges for the CBMS; Seeking Opportunities for a More Responsive Role, CBMS/ IDRC/AKI, Manila
  • 2007c - Understanding Pervasive Corruption in Sri Lanka Journal of Development Administration, vol. 3, No 1, 45- 62
  • 2008b - Youth and Political Engagement in Gellner, D. (ed) Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in south Asia, New Delhi: Sage publications
  • Gomez,E.T. (eds.)The State, Development and Identity in Multi- Ethnic Societies- ethnicity, equity and the nation, London & New York:Routledge
  • 2009a - Sociological Enterprise at the Periphery: case of Sri Lanka, in Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Sociology in an Unequal World, held in Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2010 - Concerns of Youth Affected by Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka in Gunatlilaka, R. et. al. (eds.) The Challenge of Employment in Sri Lanka, Washington, DC, The World Bank
  • 2011b- Policy issues in post- conflict Sri Lanka in. Iddawala, N.(eds.)Parliamentary Research Journal: Sri Lanka:Policy Issues in the post conflict era, Kotte: Parliament of Sri Lanka
  • 2012 Higher Education, Youth Unemployment and Social Justice in Sri Lanka, Paper presented at the 2nd ISA forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-4, august 2012
  • 2013- Global Social Policy: A Developing Country Perspective, Global Social Policy, 2013: 13: 95
  • 2014 Consequences of Group Violence involving Youth in Sri Lanka in From Bullies to Terrorists: The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence edited by James Hawdon, John Ryan and Marc Lucht, Chapter Number. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books
  • 2014 Urbanization, modernity and Community in the Global South: the Case of Colombo inSupriya Singh, YasoNadarajah, Martin Mulligan and Chris Chamberlain (eds.) Searching for Community: from Melbourne to Delhi, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, forthcoming
  • 2015 Neo-liberal Reforms, the Ethnic Conflict and the Decline of Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka, in Wolf, S.O., et. al. eds. Politics in South Asia: Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow, Heidelberg: Springer.

Unpublished Research

  • South Asian Regional Study on indigenous peoples; the case of Veddha Community in Sri Lanka, sponsored by the Regional Office of the UNICEF, New Delhi, 1998
  • Social impact of migration of women to the Middle East, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo, 1999
  • Economic Liberalization and Sub – Urban Growth in the Colombo Metropolitan Area, sponsored by National Science Foundation,1998
  • Changing Patterns of Social mobility in Sri Lanka, sponsored by the University of Colombo 1997 – 2000
  • National Youth Survey, 1999, Final Report, submitted to UNDP, Colombo (2000)