by ssa-admin-032024 | May 24, 2023 | Review
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka. Gurugram, Harayana: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella A murdered journalist...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 23, 2023 | Discussions
The Political Economy of Neoliberal Hindu Nationalism in India Alf Gunvald Nilsen A discussion with Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria and Director, the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria on ‘The...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 16, 2023 | Essay
Budget 2023: Heal the Wound or Worsen it? Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana This text is adapted from a presentation made at a virtual discussion on the 2023 Budget organised by the Professionals’ Centre for People, on 26 November 2022. The 2023 Budget proposals will further...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 15, 2023 | Discussions
Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 03 – “The Agrarian Basis of Resistance to Dispossession” A talk by Devaka Gunawardena The Critical Agrarian Studies seminar series of the Social Scientists’ Association held its third talk titled “The Agrarian...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 11, 2023 | Interview
Left Strategy in the Time of the IMF Counter-Revolution Devaka Gunawardena Less than a year has passed since the 9th July uprising last year in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, the contours of the present regime are well established. A loose network of progressive activists...
