This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, matter, subjectivity, human agency, and politics. These include decolonial studies, political ontology, political ecology, indigeneity, and posthumanisms. The book examines how postcolonial perspectives demand of posthumanisms and their often ontological discourses that they reflexively situate their own challenges within the many long histories of decolonised practice. Just as postcolonial research needs to critically engage with radical transitions suggested by the ontological turn and its related posthumanist developments, so too do posthumanisms need to decolonise their conceptual and analytic lenses. The chapters' interdisciplinary analyses are developed through global, critical, and empirical cases that include: city spaces and urbanisms in the Global North and South; food politics and colonial land use; cultural and cosmic representation in film, theatre, and poetry; nation building; the Anthropocene; materiality; the void; pluriversality; and, indigenous world views. Theoretically and conceptually rich, the book proposes new trajectories through which postcolonial and posthuman scholarships can learn from one another and so critically advance.
Kumarathilaka P, Wijesekara H, Bolan N, Kunhikrishnan A, Vithanage M. Phytoremediation of Landfill Leachates. In: Phytoremediation. Springer International Publishing; 2017. pp. 439-467.
This chapter reviews the rare use of telemental health modalities in Sri Lanka and challenges facing nationwide implementation of these services in this resource-limited setting. As in other developing countries, cost of, and access to, appropriate infrastructure are key constraints in using such advanced technologies in health service delivery. While healthcare providers and policymakers have realized the value of telemental health as a useful tool, challenges to its implementation remain. These challenges include lack of technology, appropriate infrastructure, knowledge, and skills. This chapter will delve into discussing the current approaches to implement TMH through educating the General public and disseminating mental health services in Sri Lanka.
Wijesekara H, Bolan NS, Kumarathilaka P, Geekiyanage N, Kunhikrishnan A, Seshadri B, Saint C, Surapaneni A, Vithanage M. Biosolids Enhance Mine Site Rehabilitation and Revegetation. In: Environmental Materials and Waste. ; 2016. pp. 45-71.
This chapter describes the morphology, distribution, wood anatomy, andvariations of agarwood resin contents and resin content of Gyrinops walla endemic to Sri Lanka. We revealed for the fi rst time, this species, which populates the lower elevations of the wet zone of Sri Lanka in 2012. More importantly, the recently identifi ed species possesses agarwood-producing ability, similar to other species in the Thymelaeaceae family. Before this scientifi c discovery, G. walla was considered a least valuable species due to the very low stem density. Not much is known about this forgotten species; we intend to unleash its full potential as a new economic commodity to this country.