by polity.lk | Oct 21, 2026 | Economy
Mining Heavy Mineral Sands: Deepening Dependency, Not Enhancing Leverage Amali Wedagedara The decision to mine mineral sands along two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s coastline is fuelling anxiety and tension among communities living near proposed mining sites. The Government...
by polity.lk | Oct 13, 2026 | Culture
The Art of Witness: Memory and Resistance in Sri Lanka Yolanda Foster When I first arrived in Colombo in the 1990s, I was in my twenties and had just begun a volunteer role with Peace Brigades International (PBI). Sri Lanka was still emerging from the repression of...
by polity.lk | Oct 6, 2026 | Agrarian Studies
‘Border villages’: Emergence, Salience, and implications for ‘Community’ in Sri Lanka Viyanga Gunasekera Despite Sri Lanka being an island and not sharing land borders with another country, the term ‘border villages’ (මායිම් ගම්මාන/ எல்லையோர கிராமங்கள்) is still used...
by polity.lk | Sep 22, 2026 | Gender
Image-Based Sexual Abuse, and Consent, in the Digital Age Sely Liyanage The rapid development of digital technologies has created new forms of content and new forms of harm. Some content is produced for entertainment; some for information; and some specifically for...
by polity.lk | Sep 15, 2026 | Politics
India’s Youth Protest and the Limits of Demand-Driven Mobilisation Manoranjan Pegu The recent protests ‘led’ by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in India, have been seen as the latest addition to South Asia’s wave of youth uprisings. What began as an online satire...
