by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 13, 2022 | Essay
Democracy: A Feminist Perspective V. Geetha The Rajani Thiranagama Memorial Lecture was delivered in Tamil by V. Geetha on 2 October 2021. When I was invited to deliver a lecture on the occasion of Rajani Thiranagama’s death anniversary, I felt honoured. Contemplating...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 16, 2022 | Essay
The #GotaGoHome Protest Movement: Significance, Potential, and Challenges Jayadeva Uyangoda After 31st March, 2022, Sri Lanka’s politics is no longer what it has been. It seems to have entered a qualitatively new phase. It is still too early to say anything definite...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 12, 2022 | Essay
Rethinking Odious Debt Pierre Pénet How, to what extent, and under what conditions states should repay their debt are critical questions which resurface after every major financial crisis. Debts being legal contracts, states are bound by the principle of pacta sunt...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 3, 2022 | Essay
Colombo’s Gentrification: The ‘Right to the City’ during Neoliberalism Hasini Lecamwasam IntroductionOne thing that classical economists seem to agree on with their colleagues of a more leftist persuasion is that cities are all about spatial concentration, with a view...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 24, 2022 | Essay
Dissident Memory and Democratic Citizenship: Sandya Ekneligoda and Her Struggle for Justice Chulani Kodikara Sandya Ekneligoda holding a flame and trident (24 January 2019). (Photo: Nilshan Fernando) Prageeth Ekneligoda, journalist, cartoonist, and political activist,...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 10, 2022 | Essay
Democracy in the Global Interregnum Devaka Gunawardena The meaning of democracy is becoming unmoored. Since the end of World War II, the US claimed the banner of democracy, while it underwent profound transformation at home through the civil rights movement and other...
