Categorising space: Urban‐rural or core‐periphery in Sri Lanka
研究了斯里兰卡公共资源分配和政治冲突，发现城市-乡村对立解释力不足，而核心-边缘连续体框架更适用于分析农业政策政治。
The notion of a clash between distinctive urban and rural interests does not provide a convincing explanation either of the pattern of public resource allocation in Sri Lanka or of the political conflicts which underlie these allocations. The concept of a core‐periphery continuum, centred around a densely populated urban and rural region incorporating the capital city, does however furnish a useful framework for the analysis of the politics of agricultural policy. The applicability of this framework to Sri Lanka is in large part the result of contingent historical, topographical and agro‐climatic factors, but analysis centred around this framework does illustrate the importance of certain factors of general significance to the analysis of rural‐urban politics.