by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 4, 2023 | Intervention
Resisting the Nationalist Right’s Framing of the Economic Alternative Devaka Gunawardena Given the design of the Budget for 2023, it is unlikely that Sri Lanka’s working people will see relief anytime soon. The current Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa Government has...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 25, 2022 | Intervention
“The Disaster (Before and) After the Disaster”: Writing the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Gnei Soraya Zarook The Indian Ocean tsunami that was triggered on December 26, 2004[i], killed approximately 35,000 people in Sri Lanka, rendered 800,000 people homeless, destroyed...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 20, 2022 | Intervention
Unpaid Care Work is Work Sepali Kottegoda Caring for household members. Well-being of the family. Putting food on the table. Washing clothes. Making ends meet. Looking after the young, the old, and differently abled family members. These are everyday activities...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 13, 2022 | Intervention
‘Living for the Day’: Informality, gender, and precarious work in the Sri Lankan apparel industry Shyamain Wickramasingha Informality is highly prevalent in the Sri Lankan apparel industry in the Katunayake export processing zone where there has been a labour shortage...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 6, 2022 | Intervention
Policing the Patriline: Reading the Current Economic and Political Crisis through the Plantation Mythri Jegathesan In late December 2021, the Ministry of Plantation Industries announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of...
