by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 10, 2023 | Review
Women’s Labour Force Participation: Three Themes Chulani Kodikara The IMF Staff Report on Sri Lanka released in March 2022 outlined a number of policy prescriptions to address Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis, including increasing women’s labour force...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 26, 2023 | Review
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities Kate Cronin-Furman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022 Reviewed by Radhika Coomaraswamy When I was given Kate Cronin-Furman’s book Hypocrisy and Human Rights to review, I imagined a different...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 24, 2023 | Review
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka. Gurugram, Harayana: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella A murdered journalist...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 30, 2023 | Review
Entangled Lives and the Crisis of Care – Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka. Michele Ruth Gamburd. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Asha L. Abeyasekera Michelle Gamburd’s ethnographic...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 15, 2023 | Review
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Nira Wickramasinghe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Paul D. Halliday “I understood I was to be carried to the country [to] which the ship was going, which was inhabited by...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 6, 2022 | Review
The Changing Role of Caste in Northern Sri Lanka. Thiruchandran, Selvy. Caste and its Multiple Manifestations: A Study of the Caste System in Northern Sri Lanka. Colombo: Bay Owl Press, 2021, pp. 231 + xii Reviewed by Kalinga Tudor Silva Caste in Sri Lanka is...
