by polity.lk | Dec 4, 2024 | Culture
Writing the life of author and filmmaker Hanif Kureishi: race, class and multiculturalism Ruvani Ranasinha “We had been devastated … in ways we didn’t understand by racism” ~ Kureishi, My Ear at His Heart (2004) In 2023, my biography of the British Asian...
by polity.lk | Nov 30, 2024 | Politics
Sri Lanka General Election 2024: How We See It; What We Want Collective In one or two words, describe your reaction to the overall picture from the general election; then go on to explain why. Saturation. Sri Lanka’s electoral system struggles to produce balanced...
by polity.lk | Nov 21, 2024 | Politics
Reading the General Election 2024 Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. With its unprecedented, record-breaking electoral victory at the general election of 2024, the NPP has succeeded in engineering popular dissent...
by polity.lk | Nov 12, 2024 | Politics
Can the National People’s Power Consolidate its Presidential Victory in the Parliamentary Election? Pradeep Peiris The forthcoming parliamentary election on November 14 has attracted significant attention and raised several pertinent questions: Can the National...
by polity.lk | Nov 6, 2024 | Gender
Soft Authoritarianism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Backlash Against Women’s Rights in Europe Shalini Randeria This talk[1] connects several of my scholarly interests over the last decades in an anthropology of the state, legal anthropology, population policies, gender,...
