Soft Authoritarianism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Backlash Against Women’s Rights in Europe by Shalini Randeria

This talk connects several of my scholarly interests over the last decades in an anthropology of the state, legal anthropology, population policies, gender, and global governance,…

 

Settler Tourism and the Threat of Terror by Praveen Tilakaratne and Tamara Fernando

On 23 October 2024, the American Embassy in Sri Lanka issued a statement restricting all embassy personnel from travelling to Arugam Bay, a popular beach town in southeastern Sri Lanka…

Aragalaya: Struggle for Space and the Spaces of the Struggle by Nihal Perera

The Aragalaya was the largest gathering of people to protest a national government in Sri Lanka. February 2022 saw the emergence of small, spontaneous, and non-partisan candlelight vigils in and around Colombo. Coalescing the struggle, in April,…

The Election That Was by B. Skanthakumar

Sri Lanka has a new president. That the incumbent would lose was not in doubt. Who might replace him though was in question. Would it be opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, or the leader of a fringe party Anura Kumara Dissanayake?…

Polity is a left magazine published by the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) since 2003. We aim to advance democratic consciousness, gender equality, state reform, and social justice in Sri Lanka, while interested in South Asia and the World. Like its predecessor Pravada (1991-2002) we publish on politics, political economy, history, women, ethnicity, sexualities, religion, labour studies, agrarian relations, nationalisms, violence, environment, and much more…

Social Scientists’ Association

The Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) is an organization working to investigate the way in which social change is contouring the multiple realities faced by communities in Sri Lanka and South Asia. The SSA is deeply committed to promoting a culture of knowledge production that informs and undergirds interventions aimed at achieving social emancipation for marginalized communities.

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