Publications - Rohan Bastin
2019 [with Premakumara de Silva] ‘Historical Threads in Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Sri Lanka.’ In Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World edited by Iselin Frydenlund & Michael Jerryson, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2019 [with Premakumara de Silva and Farzana Haniffa] ‘Ethnicity and Violence in Sri Lanka: An Ethnohistorical Narrative.’ In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity ed. Ratuva S. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore
2017 [with Premakumara de Silva] ‘Military Tourism as State-Effect in the Sri Lankan Civil War.’ In Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism: Commemorating the Dead, John Eade and Mario Katić, London: Routledge.
2016 ‘Recognising the Spatial and Territorial Nature of Religious Communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka’ in Religion and Urbanism ed. Yamini Narayanan, London: Routledge.
2016 ‘Secularized sovereignty and sacrifice: a ritualistic point of view.’ In Barraud, C., Iteanu, A. and Moya, I. (ed), Puissance et impuissance de la valeur: l'anthropologie comparative de Louis Dumont, CNRS Editions, Paris, France, pp.69-94.
2014, Dynamics of Fragility: Secret Victories and Political Awakenings in Sri Lanka's Civil War. In Ware, Anthony (ed), Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts: Failed, Fragile, Pariah, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Eng., pp.180-201.
2012 ‘Empty Spaces and the Multiple Modernities of Nationalism.’ Appendix 3 in the new edition of Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia by Bruce Kapferer. Revised edition with new preface and appendices. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
2012, Saints, sites and religious accommodation in Sri Lanka. In Bowman, Glenn (ed), Sharing the Sacra : The politics and pragmatics of intercommunal relations around holy places, Berghahn Books, New York, N.Y., pp.97-117.
2005, Hindu temples in the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict : capture and excess, Social analysis, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring, pp. 45-66.