<strong>Nihal</strong> <strong>Perera</strong> 4Exploring the Post-Hurricane Recovery Process: CapAsia V students studied the recoveryprocess on the Gulf Coast of the USA, December 15-18, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Bamboo Workshop: Bamboo and mud housing workshop conducted by King Mongkut Instituteof Technology at Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, January 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005Disaster Mitigation Workshop: Physical Planning for Disaster Mitigation in Low IncomeSettlements in the Yamuna Pushta River Basin Area. CapAsia workshop in collaborationwith the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, January 31- Februar2y0201Multinational Teleconference ClassesSubaltern Spaces: class between my class at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and theVirginia B. Ball Center seminar taught by Dr. Wes Janz at BSU, April 30 . . . . . . . . 2007Culture, Architecture, Environment: A transnational class between KMITL (Bangkok), TokaiUniversity (Tokyo) and BSU, June3 - 30...................................2006Multinational Teleconference Conferences:Tele-Conference Discussion on Sustainable Houses, with KMITL (Bangkok), and TokaiUniversity (Tokyo), August 30 ..........................................2005Tele-Conference Discussion on Environmentally Friendly Design, with KMITL (Bangkok),and Tokai University (Tokyo), June 7 .....................................2005P U B L I C A T I O N SIndividually Authored Books/ MonographsDecolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Space in Sri LankaOxford University Press (A new Asian edition of Society and Space) ............1999Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri LankaWestview Press ......................................................1998In Progress:People’s Spaces: Familiarization, Negotiation, Emergence (Proposal Submitted)Edited or Co-Edited VolumesThe Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices, ConferenceProceedings, eds. <strong>Nihal</strong> <strong>Perera</strong> and Wing-Shing Tang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong BaptistUniversity...........................................................2007In Progress:The Transforming Asian City: People’s Practices and Emergent Spaces (with Tang Wing-Shing; Preparing the manuscript for review)
<strong>Nihal</strong> <strong>Perera</strong> 5Refereed Book Chapters:When Planning Ideas Land: Mahaweli’s People-Centered Approach, in Crossing Borders:International Exchanges and Planning Practices, eds.: Patsy Healey and Robert Upton:141-72. Routledge ....................................................2010Rebuilding Lives, Undermining Oppositions: Spaces of War and Peace in Sri LankaIn Spatializing Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka, eds.,CathrineBrun, Tariq Jazeel: 168-93. Sage.........................................2009Chandigarh: India’s Modernist Experiment, in Planning Twentieth-Century Capital Cities,ed., David Gordon: 226-36. London: Routledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006The Making of a National Capital: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Contestations in SriJayawardhanapura, in National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the NationalNarrative, ed., Michael Geisler: 241-272. Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Pres2s005Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo.In Trans-Status Subjects: Genders in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia, eds.,Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De: 67-87. Duke University Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Colonialism and National Space: Representations of Sri LankaIn Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka: ‘Pearl of the East’ or the ‘Islandof Tears’?, ed., Siri Gamage and I. B. Watson: 23-48. Sage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York?In Representing the City: Ethnicity, Capital, and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis,ed., Anthony D. King: 137-157. Macmillan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1996Refereed Journal Articles & PapersCritical Vernacularism: A Locally Produced Global Difference Journal of ArchitecturalEducation 63, 2: .....................................................2010Asian Urbanization and Planning: Viewing the Production of Space from the Spaces ofProduction Bhumi 1, 2: ...............................................2010People’s Spaces: Familiarization, Subject Formation, and Emergent Spaces in ColomboPlanning Theory 8, 3: 50-74 ............................................2009The Planners’ City: The Construction of Town-Planning Perception of ColomboEnvironment and Planning A 40/ 1 (January): 57-73 .........................2008Importing Problems: The Impact of a Housing Ordinance on ColomboArab World Geographer, 8, 1-2 (Summer): 61-76 ...........................2005Contesting Visions: Hybridity, Liminality, and Authorship of the Chandigarh PlanPlanning Perspectives 19, 2 (April): 179-203 ...............................2004thIndigenising the Colonial City: Late 19 -Century Colombo and Its LandscapeUrban Studies: Contested Landscapes, Asian Cities, eds., Lily Kong and Lisa Law, 39, 9:1703-21 ............................................................2002Globalization and the Urban Form: Transformations in Colombo in the 1980s and 1990sIn City, Space, and Globalization: An International Perspective, ed., Hemalata C.Dandekar: 39-45 .....................................................1998Territorial Spaces and National Identities: Representations of Sri LankaSouth Asia, xx: 23-50..................................................1997