Department of Geography

Prof. H. A. N. M Hennayake

Chair Professor

Department of Geography
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Education

Ph.D.

Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A

1995

M.A.

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A.

1989

B.A. Honors

University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

1981

Positions Held

Head - Department of Geography

2015 - 2016

Visiting Lecturer - Department of Town and Country Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

2009 - 2012

Visiting Professor - Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, USA

2004 - To Present

Memberships

Member - Association of American Geographers

Member, Editor - Association of Sri Lankan Geographers

2009

Member - Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science (Life Membership)

2001

Publications

BOOKS

Hennayake NM (2006) Culture, Politics and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Hennayake NM (2005) “Society, Space and Human Geography,” in Induwara, (edited volume of Geography articles) Warakapola, Sri Lanka: Ariya Publishers.

Hennayake NM (2000) “Participatory Rural Development and the Question of Women’s Empowerment in Sri Lanka,” in Gender, Ideology and Development, Center for Women’s Research (CENWOR), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Henanayake NM (2021) Reflecting on geography higher education in Sri Lanka: Unpacking/releasing the hegemonic burden…. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Hennayake NM (2019) The postcolonial state, power politics and indigenous development as a discourse of power in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Journal of Sociology, Vol.1, No.1.

Hennayake NM (2019) Social construction of landslides; Case of Aranayake - Political Ecological Glances in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) Volume 8 Issue 7, July 2019.

Hennayake NM (2017) Interrogating national development: A critical geographical perspective, LST Review, Vol. 27, Issue 342, pp 14-27.

Hennayake NM (2017) Reconceptualization of postcolonial project: Beyond the strictures and structures of orientalism. (translation) Sambhavana (2017/18) Vol.10, No.1

Hennayake NM (2010) “Globalization within: Interplay of ‘local’ and ‘global’ in Sri Lanka”, Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences, 33/34 (1&2, pp. 1-14.

Hennayake NM (2009) “Exploring human geographies in postcolonial Sri Lanka”, 2009 Bhumi, The Planning Research Journal. vol.1, no.1., pp

Hennayake NM (2002) “Postmodernism and Sri Lankan Social Sciences,” 2002 Sambhavana, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Research Interests

Culture, politics and development

Theoretical developments in Geography and Social Sciences

Geography and poverty

Geography and literature

Urban Cultural Landscape

Ongoing Research and Projects

National identity as an everyday discourse: reflections from cartoons (with Ms. Thamali Kithsiri; paper completed)

Evolution of Kandy landscape through an ecological cum morphological (Carl Sauer) perspective (poster already presented at the Urban Ecology Conference in Shanghai, China in 2016 and received Best poster award) (with Dr. Lalitha Disanayake)

Urban residential dynamics: a new trend of emerging gated communities around Kandy (with Ms. B.Arularasi city in Sri Lanka)