by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka Urs Geiser In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 18, 2023 | Intervention
Gaza: Into the Abyss Devaka Gunawardena Gaza and the wider world are heading into an abyss. With the announcement and preparation of Israel’s invasion of Gaza in response to a massacre by Hamas, longstanding fears appear to be on the verge of realisation. The...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman Rohini Hensman Dick and Pauline Hensman, Mount Lavinia, 1982 The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) and Dick Hensman occurred over the course of the past year. This attempt to provide an overview of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Polity
Polity Vol. 11 No. 1 Editorial: Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle – Q. M. Saul May Day Diary 2023 – B. Skanthakumar Don’t Use Class as a Weapon to Dismiss Social Struggles – Devaka Gunawardena Resisting the Nationalist...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Polity
Polity Vol. 10 No. 2 Editorial 2023 Budget: False Promises at the Expense of Women and Working People – Feminist Collective for Economic Justice ‘The Writing Was on the Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka – Jayati Ghosh The Election of Ranil...
