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...
by polity.lk | Sep 8, 2026 | Politics
This Government, That Opposition, and the Work Still Ours Lionel Bopage For sixty-six years, until his death in 2014, the legendary comrade Bala Tampoe led the Ceylon Mercantile Union (CMU)—and turned a clerks’ association into a militant, multi-ethnic vanguard of the...
by polity.lk | Sep 1, 2026 | Statement
Our support for the open letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ Collective As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows,...
by polity.lk | Aug 18, 2026 | History
Breaking the Spell of an Imperial Photo Album: The Unlikely Beginnings of ‘Colombo Histories’ Sujit Sivasundaram Where one is based in the world, one’s own positionality, the perspective with which one is writing, is crucial to the way research and its politics takes...
