by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 2, 2023 | News
Experts’ Panel to hear testimonies of Sex Workers from seven districts in Sri Lanka A brief report Sex Workers and Allies South Asia (SWASA), Sri Lanka In a first ever effort jointly organized by the Sex Workers and Allies South Asia (SWASA), Sri Lanka and the Social...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 28, 2023 | Discussions
Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 01- Progressive policies and the state’s local practices: some thoughts on rural contexts in Sri Lanka A talk by Dr. Urs Geiser Social Scientists’ Association as part of its Critical Agrarian Studies seminar...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 22, 2023 | Intervention
The Left’s Choice: Revival or Surrender Devaka Gunawardena Two responses to my recent piece, “Resisting the Nationalist Right’s Framing of the Economic Alternative,” have appeared. One is by Uditha Devapriya and another, here in Polity, is by Shiran Illanperuma....
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 15, 2023 | Review
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Nira Wickramasinghe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Paul D. Halliday “I understood I was to be carried to the country [to] which the ship was going, which was inhabited by...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 6, 2023 | Essay
Nirmani Liyanage (2.2.1988-12.11.2022) Nihal Perera “To understand the community I am researching, i.e., the injustice and inequality its members are facing on a daily basis, I have to live among them, gain their trust and, through that trust, find ways to address the...
