Publications

Rambukwella, Harshana. The politics and poetics of authenticity: A cultural genealogy of Sinhala nationalism. UCL Press, 2018.

Rambukwella, Harshana. “Chinthanaya: An alternative epistemology?,” in  Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes, ed., Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera. London Bloomsbury. (2024, forthcoming). 

Brennan, Sara; Chun, Elaine; Dlaske, Kati; Karrebæk, Martha Sif; Rambukwella, Harshana. “Authentic problems: Critical reflections on theorizing authenticity." in Critical sociolinguistic dialogues: The constitution of a field (book in honor of Monica Heller), ed., Mi-Cha Flubacher and Alfonso Del Percio, London: Bloomsbury. (2024, forthcoming).

Rambukwella, Harshana. “The cultural politics of Sinhala nationalism” in Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka, ed., Kanchana Ruwanpura and Amjad Mohamed-Saleem. London: Routledge. (2024, forthcoming). 

Rambukwella, Harshana, “Imagining democracy: Literary representations of democracy in 1970s Sri Lankan Sinhala and English fiction,” in Democracy and Democratisation in Sri Lanka: Paths, Trends and Imaginations (Volumes I and II), ed., Jayadeva Uyangoda. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Bandaranaike Center for International Studies. (2023).

Rambukwella, Harshana. “What got left behind: The limits of leftist engagements with art and culture in post-colonial Sri Lanka” in Forms of the left: Aesthetics, networks and connected histories, ed., Lotte Hoek and Sanjukta Sunderason. London: Bloomsbury (2021).

Rambukwella, Harshana. “The representational burden of ethno-nationalist violence in Sri Lanka” in Violence in South Asia: Contemporary perspectives, ed., Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Birte Heideman. New York: Routledge.(2020)

Rambukwella, Harshana. “Standard Language, cricket, nationalism and the tyrannies of writing”, in Tyrannies of writing: Ideologies of the written word.” ed., Constanze Weth and Kasper Juffermans. London: Bloomsbury. (2018)

Mendis, D. and Harshana Rambukwella. “Sri Lankan Englishes”, in The Routledge book of world Englishes, ed., Andy Kirkpatrick. London: Routledge.(2010).

Korf, Benedikt and Rambukwella, Harshana. "The cultural life of democracy." Geopolitics (2024, forthcoming).

Rambukwella, Harshana. "The Cultural Life of Democracy: Notes on Popular Sovereignty, Culture and Arts in Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya," South Asian Review of English (SARE), Special Issue: “Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture,” ed., Maryse Jayasuriya and Dinidu Karunanayake. (2024, forthcoming).

Rambukwella, Harshana Sassanka. "Violent places: The politics of ‘framing’postcolonial violence." Postcolonial Text 17, no. 2 & 3 (2022).

Rambukwella, Harshana. "The politics of language scholarship: there are no truly global concerns." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021, no. 267-268 (2021): 253-257.

Rambukwella, Harshana. "On hybridity, the politics of knowledge production and critical language studies." Language, Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (2019): 126-131.

Rambukwella, Harshana. "Postcolonial nativism? Exploring the postsecularist critique of history on Sri Lanka." boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture 45, no. 4 (2018): 103-126.

Rambukwella, Harshana. "Locations of authenticity: SWRD Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and the search for indigeneity." The Journal of Asian Studies 76, no. 2 (2017): 383-400.