by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Asoka Handagama’s Let Her Cry: A Cry for a Radical Feminist Cinema Prabha Manuratne Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.59-63 (Download PDF) This issue of Polity also includes a review of Asoka Handagama’s new film Ege Esa Aga (Let Her Cry) by Dr. Prabha Manuratne. Dr....
Key Findings – Political Weather Analysis, June 2015
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Key Findings – Political Weather Analysis, June 2015 Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.49-50 (Download PDF) The final word in our sections on “The Promise of January 8th” celebrates the enthusiasm and optimism of the Sri Lankan voter who used their ballots to express their...
From Good Governance to Inept Governance)
Jayadeva Uyangoda
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
From Good Governance to Inept Governance) Jayadeva Uyangoda Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.6-9 (Download PDF) Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda’s article traces some of the contentious issues that have emerged since 2015 to point out the danger of the new government’s tendency to...
EDITORIAL: THE PROMISE OF JANUARY 8th IN PERSPECTIVE)
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
EDITORIAL: THE PROMISE OF JANUARY 8th IN PERSPECTIVE) Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.2-3 (Download PDF) The political conversation in Sri Lanka in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2015 Presidential Election has increasingly tended to focus on questions of governance...
Transitional Justice in Post-war Sri Lanka: Dilemmas and Prospects
Nipunika O. Lecamwasam
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Transitional Justice in Post-war Sri Lanka: Dilemmas and Prospects Nipunika O. Lecamwasam Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.14-17 (Download PDF) Nipunika O. Lecamwasam’s article draws our attention to the critical question of how a transitional justice agenda is to...
1987: Facets of Ethnicity
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 2, 1987 | Conference, Events & Activities, Uncategorized
1987: Facets of Ethnicity Following the success of “Ethnicity and Social Change” (1984), the SSA in 1987 published another book Facets of Ethnicity edited by … on the themes of nationalism, ethnicity. The contributors were Serena Tennekoon, Newton Gunasinghe, Radhika...