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Monday, August 3, 2015
Sociology of the Rajapaksa phenomenon
Class and opportunity as explanatory categories
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by Kumar David-August 1, 2015, 12:00 pm
The Dutugemanu syndrome, by itself, is not an inadequate explanation for
the persistence of Rajapaksa’s popularity. Of course the defeat of the
LTTE is one determinant of today’s Sinhala-Buddhist psyche, but alone it
is insufficient explanation of the Rajapaksa phenomenon. For example,
though it does account for the 2010 result, it is tangential to the sea
of blue that painted the January 2015 results map and does not account
for the frenzy in recent months. Disposing of Prabaharan six years ago
is now a secondary factor that needs to be contextualised with
sociological explanations.
