Dr Tariq Jazeel

Books and monographs

Jazeel, T. (2013, forthcoming). Sacred Modernity: nature, environment and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool.
(Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines series, eds. Graham Huggan and Andrew Thompson)
Brun, C. and Jazeel, T. (eds.) (2009). Spatialising politics: culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage, New Delhi. ISBN: 9788178299297

Refereed research articles in journals

Jazeel, T. (2013). Dissimulated landscapes: postcolonial method and the politics of space in southern Sri Lanka. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(1), 61-79.
doi:10.1068/d7411
Jazeel, T. (2012). Postcolonial Spaces and Identities. Geography, 97(2), 60-67.
http://www.geography.org.uk/Journals/Journals.asp?articleID=947
Jazeel, T. (2012). Postcolonialism: Orientalism and the Geographical Imagination. Geography, 97(1), 4-11.
http://www.geography.org.uk/Journals/Journals.asp?articleID=925
Jazeel, T. (2011). Spatializing Difference Beyond Cosmopolitanism: rethinking planetary futures. Theory Culture & Society, 28(5), 75-97.
doi:10.1177/0263276411410447
Jazeel, T. (2010). Sri Lanka inside-out: cyberspace and the mediated geographies of political engagement. Contemporary South Asia, 18(4), 443-449.
doi:10.1080/09584935.2010.526200
Jazeel, T. and McFarlane, C. (2010). The limits of responsibility: a postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 109-124.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00367.x
(Reprinted in: Gregory, D. and Castree, N. (eds.) Human Geography, Volume 1. Sage, London. ISBN: 9781412903691)
Jazeel, T. and Ruwanpura, K. (2009). Dissent: Sri Lanka's new minority? (Guest Editorial). Political Geography, 28(7), 385-387.
doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.08.002
Jazeel, T. (2009). Reading the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness: colonial repetitions, postcolonial possibilities. Contemporary South Asia, 17(4), 399-414.
doi:10.1080/09584930903324138
Jazeel, T. (2009). Governmentality. Social Text, 27(3 100), 136-140.
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doi:10.1215/01642472-2009-024
Jazeel, T. (2007). Bawa and beyond: reading Sri Lanka's tropical modern architecture. South Asia Journal for Culture, 1, 7-26.
http://colomboinstitute.org/2008/09/03/south-asia-journal/
Jazeel, T. (2007). Spectres of tolerance: living together beyond cosmopolitanism (Review essay). Cultural Geographies, 14(4), 617-624.
doi:10.1177/1474474007082298
Jazeel, T. and McFarlane, C. (2007). Intervention: Responsible Learning: cultures of knowledge production and the north-south divide, Antipode, 39(5), 781-789.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00559.x
Jazeel, T. (2007). Awkward Geographies: spatializing academic responsibility, encountering Sri Lanka. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 28(3), 287-299.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2007.00302.x
Clark, N., Greenhough, B. and Jazeel, T. (2006). Reply: when response becomes responsibility. The Geographical Journal, 172(3), 248-250.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00214.x
Jazeel, T. (2006). Postcolonial geographies of privilege: diaspora space, the politics of personhood and the 'Sri Lankan Women's Association in the UK'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(1), 19-33.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00192.x
Greenhough, B., Jazeel, T. and Massey, D. (2005). Introduction: geographical encounters with the Indian Ocean tsunami. The Geographical Journal, 171(4), 369-371.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00175_1.x
Jazeel, T. (2005). The world is sound? Geography, musicology and British-Asian soundscapes. Area, 37(3), 233-241.
doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00626.x
Jazeel, T. (2005). 'Nature', nationhood and the poetics of meaning in Ruhuna (Yala) National Park, Sri Lanka. Cultural Geographies, 12(2), 199-228.
doi:10.1191/1474474005eu326oa
Jazeel, T. (2005). Because Pigs Can Fly: sexuality, race and the geographies of difference in Shyam Selvadurai's 'Funny Boy'. Gender, Place and Culture. 12(2), 231-249.
doi:10.1080/09663690500094922
Jazeel, T. (2003). Unpicking Sri Lankan 'island-ness' in Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef'. Journal of Historical Geography, 29(4), 582-598.
doi:10.1006/jhge.2002.0410

Contributions to books

Jazeel, T. (2013). Postcolonialism. In: N. Johnson, R. Schein and J. Winders (eds.), A New Companion to Cultural Geography. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford. 17-22.
Jazeel, T. (2012). Sacred Modernism or Secular Space: the ornamental politics of religion in Sri Lanka. In: Ghosh, R. (ed.) Making sense of the secular: critical perspectives from Europe and Asia. Routledge, London & New York. 144-156.
Jazeel, T. (2011). The geography of theory: knowledge, politics and the postcolonial present. In: Teverson, A. and Upstone, S. (eds.) Postcolonial spaces: the politics of place in contemporary culture Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke. 164-184.
Jazeel, T. (2010). Iconographies elsewhere: reading landscape in translation. In: della Dora, V., Digby, S. and Basdas, B. (eds.) Visual and historical geographies: essays in honour of Denis E. Cosgrove, Historical Geography Research Series 42, Royal Geographical Society, London. 119-129.
Jazeel, T. (2009). Social and cultural geographies: difference/politics of difference. In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0080449111
Jazeel, T. (2009). Geography, spatial politics and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's 'Anil's Ghost'. In: Brun, C. and Jazeel, T. (eds.) Spatialising politics: culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage, New Delhi.
Jazeel, T. and Brun, C. (2009). Spatial Politics and Postcolonial Sri Lanka. In: Brun, C. and Jazeel, T. (eds.) Spatialising politics: culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage, New Delhi.
Jazeel, T. (2004). Parks. In: Harrison, S., Pile, S. and Thrift, N. (eds.) Patterned Ground: entanglements of nature and culture, Reaktion, London. 142-144.

Reviews and Miscellanea

Jazeel, T. (ed.) (2010). Impact: knowledge production and the future of the British Academy.
Social Text website: http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/impact/
Jazeel, T. (2009). Book review: Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon, by Scriver and Prakash (eds.), South Asia Journal for Culture, 3, 100-101.
Jazeel, T. (2009). Book review: Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon, by Scriver and Prakash (eds.). Cultural Geographies, 16(1), 140-141.
Jazeel, T. (2007). Bawa and Beyond: reading contemporary Sri Lankan architecture, International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) monograph, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Copy available from author
Sinhala translation, by Samudrika Sylva, published in Patitha 2006(4), 7-4, a journal of the Colombo Institute for the Advanced Study of Society and Culture.
Jazeel, T. (2007). Book Review: Abiding by Sri Lanka: on peace, place and postcoloniality, by Qadri Ismail. The Book Review India, 31(10), 78-80.
Jazeel, T. (2007). Book Review: Writing diaspora: South Asian women, culture and ethnicity, by Yasmin Hussain. Gender Place and Culture, 14(5), 621-623.
doi:10.1080/09663690701562487
Greenhough, B., Jazeel, T. and Massey, D. (eds.) (2005). The Indian Ocean Tsunami: geographical commentaries one year on; themed section, The Geographical Journal, 171(4), 369-386.
Jazeel, T. (2003). Book Review: Thinking geographically: space, theory and contemporary Human Geography by Hubbard, Kitchin, Bartley and Fuller (Eds.). Progress in Human Geography, 27(5), 668-669.
doi:10.1177/030913250302700515
Jazeel, T. (2001). Book Review: Decolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka by Nihal Perera. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 22(2), 194-197.
doi:10.1111/1467-9493.00102
Jazeel, T. (2001). Book Reviews: Environmental philosophy and ethics in Buddhism by Padmasiri de Silva, and Spirit of the environment: religion, value and environmental concern, by Cooper & Palmer (eds.) Ecumene, 8(4), 513-516.
Jazeel, T. (2000). Postcolonial senses of place in Yala National Park. In: Stephens (ed.), Proceedings: Habitus 2000, a sense of place, Curtin University of Technology (CD Rom).