by polity.lk | Feb 5, 2025 | Agrarian Studies
The Hidden Politics of Critical Agrarian Studies: A Reply to Urs Geiser Tom Brass In a recent contribution to Polity, Urs Geiser (2023) endorsed Critical Agrarian Studies (CAS), as an approach he wishes to apply to the study of rural society in Sri Lanka. To this end,...
by polity.lk | Jan 30, 2025 | Editorial, B. Skanthakumar, Chulani Kodikara, Rebecca Surenthiraraj
Editorial: Compass on an Old Course? Editors One hundred days have passed since Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed the presidency of Sri Lanka after the 21 September election, subsequently leading the National People’s Power (NPP) to an overwhelming victory in the...
by polity.lk | Jan 25, 2025 | Culture
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024): Parsi Pakistani writer between Lahore, Partition, and the US Arif Azad Bapsi Sidhwa, who died aged 86 in Houston, Texas on 25 December 2024, was Pakistan’s pioneering woman fiction writer in English who rose to regional and global fame,...
by polity.lk | Jan 20, 2025 | Polity Archive
Polity Vol. 12 No. 1 THE CONJUNCTURE IN THE CRISIS – B. Skanthakumar WHERE DOES PEACE REST? – Natasha Ranawake ZIONISM IN CRISIS AFTER OCTOBER 7? WHAT CRISIS? – Neve Gordon TWO CONCEPTIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY – Rohini Hensman RESISTING GENOCIDE...
by polity.lk | Jan 15, 2025 | Politics
The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review Jayadeva Uyangoda How democratic will the National People’s Power (NPP) government be? How faithful will the NPP leaders – whose political careers began in the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with a background of...
