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 | Dec 17, 2023 | Essay
Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri Lanka B. Skanthakumar Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget for 2024 had safe passage on third reading on 13 December as expected, with a majority of 41 votes in the 225-member legislature. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 27, 2023 | Essay
Repatriation and Reparation: Objects and the Colonial Museum Lara Wijesuriya Exhibit 1: Throne of Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe, Colombo National Museum In 1934, the Duke of Gloucester paid a State visit to Ceylon, bringing with him the throne and regalia of Sri Wickrama...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 30, 2023 | Essay
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern Haryana Srishti Yadav November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka Urs Geiser In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman Rohini Hensman Dick and Pauline Hensman, Mount Lavinia, 1982 The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) and Dick Hensman occurred over the course of the past year. This attempt to provide an overview of...
