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...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Review
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka by Bandura Dileepa Witharana. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2022 Reviewed by Cherry Briggs Since the mid-1980s, the subjects of nationalism and Sinhalese identity have dominated...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 25, 2023 | Intervention
In 2024’s elections, lessons from 2015 Devaka Gunawardena Ahead of the 2015 Presidential Elections that were held on 8 January, Mahinda Rajapaksa seemed unlikely to be defeated. Although Maithripala Sirisena had split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Rajapaksas...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 11, 2023 | Interview
“Austerity driven economic reforms affect women more than men” An Interview with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky Dr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky was the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights between June 2014 and April...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 4, 2023 | Review
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan. Manhattan: Random House, 2023 Reviewed by Vasugi Kailasam Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of...
