“Women Workers’ Health and Wellbeing Have Never Been a Concern of Plantation Companies”

An Interview with Menaha Kandasamy

by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 8, 2023 | Interview

“Women Workers’ Health and Wellbeing Have Never Been a Concern of Plantation Companies” An Interview with Menaha Kandasamy Menaha Kandasamy is the first woman to serve as the President and General Secretary of the Ceylon Plantation Workers’ Union and a Founding Member...

Policy dialogue on Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka

by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 4, 2023 | Conference, Discussions

Policy dialogue on Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka A policy dialogue titled, “Recognizing, Reducing, and Redistributing Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka” organized by the Women and Media Collective was held on  March 31st, 2023 at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo from 9 am to...

Entangled Lives and the Crisis of Care – Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka. Michele Ruth Gamburd. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Asha L. Abeyasekera

by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 30, 2023 | Review

Entangled Lives and the Crisis of Care – Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka. Michele Ruth Gamburd. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Asha L. Abeyasekera Michelle Gamburd’s ethnographic...

Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 02- “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis”

a talk by Dr. Kalpa Rajapaksha

by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 14, 2023 | Discussions

Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 02- “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis” a talk by Dr. Kalpa Rajapaksha “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis” The Critical Agrarian Studies seminar series of...

International Women’s Day: Sri Lankan Women Demand Democracy, Economic Justice, and Freedom

Feminist Collective for Economic Justice

by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 14, 2023 | Statement

International Women’s Day: Sri Lankan Women Demand Democracy, Economic Justice, and Freedom Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Working women are bearing the debt burden! In 1908, 15,000 working women marched through New York City demanding decent working hours,...