by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 30, 2022 | Intervention
No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour Chulani Kodikara As part of Sri Lanka’s economic bailout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is telling us that we should increase women’s labour force participation. It is part of a recommendation about ‘growth-enhancing...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 25, 2022 | Intervention
Women’s Labour Force Participation: Choice Versus Necessity Ranmini Vithanagama The benefits of women’s labour force participation (LFP) have been broadly discussed along two strands. The first is its utilitarian value. According to International Monetary Fund...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 14, 2022 | Interview
‘Is there an Asian Bioethics? Alternative Understandings of Ethics in Medicine’ Bob Simpson Peripheral Visions: Anthropological Perspectives on Bioethics, Biomedicine and Biotechnologies in Sri Lanka, (Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo 2022), reflects on the...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 27, 2022 | Literary
Untitled ‘Chitra’ The bedMade from wood of a tree, nurtured in the Vanni forestThe tree bears fruits, yellow, plump, small and sticky, very sweetHoney–filled flowers The old carpenter carved its legs and drew motifsThe sweet aroma and taste stem from the bed mixed...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 17, 2022 | Intervention
Outline of a Redistributive State in the Southern Periphery Devaka Gunawardena A clear line against political repression is beginning to emerge within democratic opposition forces in Sri Lanka, or broadly speaking, those who oppose the current government of Ranil...
