by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 21, 2021 | Polity
Polity Vol.8 No.1 & 2 Editorial: Environment & Society in Sri Lanka, pp. 02 – 03 Crossing Borders: Sovereign Life and Sovereignty – Sivamohan Sumathy , pp. 04-07 Beyond Numbers: Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Response, Politics and People – Ramya Kumar, pp. 8 – 13 April...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 21, 2021 | From the Archive
A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Qadri Ismail Novels like all other texts take sides. Literary orthodoxy may hold, still, that fiction must be read and evaluated on purely aesthetic grounds. But leftist literary...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 15, 2021 | Essay
Identity Formation in the Sinhalese Transnational Community in Toronto, Canada Sankajaya Nanayakkara The current literature on diaspora makes a break from the old assimilationist and methodologically nationalist perspective on migration. The older perspective took the...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 15, 2021 | Essay
30 Years Later: Reading the Southern Mothers’ Front with Malathi de Alwis Chulani Kodikara Meeting of the southern Mothers’ Front. Photo: Stephen Champion In Malathi de Alwis’ analysis the southern Mother’s Front which emerged from the ruins of the second southern...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 13, 2021 | Review
Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka. Mythri Jegathesan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 288 pp Reviewed by Nadia Augustyniak As anthropology continues to grapple with the colonial, racialised, and exploitative undercurrents of...
