by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 29, 2024 | Field Notes
“One day, nobody will even ask about us”: The obsolete silversmiths of Kandy Hasini Lecamwasam Hand-operated silver rolling machine In the course of research into why the traditional craft economy, despite being a key medium through which Sinhala nationalism is...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 22, 2024 | Intervention
The Cannon and the Cranium: Towards a Wider Agenda for Reparatory Justice in Sri Lanka Andi Schubert Lewke Disave’s Cannon, Colombo National Museum Lara Wijesuriya’s excellent recent essay is a wonderful invitation for further conversation about the politics of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 14, 2024 | Essay
When crises converge: how uneven agrarian development influences the effects of climate change in Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone Harry M. Quealy and Cherisma Rajaratnam In 2016-2017, Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone suffered what had been described as the worst...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 8, 2024 | Editorial
Palestine and Us Three months of atrocity upon atrocity and abomination upon abomination have passed since the dogs of war were unleashed over Palestine. As of the dawn of 2024, over 22,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been killed, and around 57,000...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 25, 2023 | Review
Best Reads 2023 Vajra Chandrasekera I have meant to read Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) my whole adult life but only picked it up while glued to the current horrific news about Israel’s genocide in Palestine. On reading the book for the first time, I found perhaps...
