by polity.lk | Jun 17, 2024 | Polity Archive
Polity Vol. 11 No. 2 Editorial – PALESTINE AND US A VOICE FROM PALESTINE- M. A. Nuhman GAZA: INTO THE ABYSS- Devaka Gunawardena SRI LANKA MUST ACT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE! IF I MUST DIE- Refaat Alareer IN 2024’S ELECTIONS, LESSONS FROM 2015- Devaka...
by polity.lk | Jun 10, 2024 | Politics
Authoritarian Populism in the Global South Alf Gunvald Nilsen During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept...
by polity.lk | Jun 3, 2024 | Culture
Performance in a Time of Terror: A Conversation with Dr Ranjini Obeyesekere Kanchuka Dharmasiri In 2021, Dr Ranjini Obeyesekere published her English translation of five Sinhala plays from the 1980s and 1990s titled Performance in a Time of Terror, to accompany an...
by polity.lk | May 27, 2024 | Culture
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala, and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas. Edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett. Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 2023. 424p. Gnei Soraya Zarook Out of Sri Lanka, the “first true anthology of...
by polity.lk | May 24, 2024 | Review
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka. Gurugram, Harayana: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella A murdered journalist...
