Reading the General Election 2024

Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara

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...

Can the National People’s Power Consolidate its Presidential Victory in the Parliamentary Election?

Pradeep Peiris

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...

Soft Authoritarianism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Backlash Against Women’s Rights in Europe

Shalini Randeria

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,...

Settler Tourism and the Threat of Terror

Praveen Tilakaratne and Tamara Fernando

by polity.lk | Oct 29, 2024 | Politics

Settler Tourism and the Threat of Terror Praveen Tilakaratne and Tamara Fernando Terror at the CoastlineOn 23 October 2024, the American Embassy in Sri Lanka issued a statement restricting all embassy personnel from travelling to Arugam Bay, a popular beach town in...

Aragalaya: Struggle for Space and the Spaces of the Struggle

Nihal Perera

by polity.lk | Oct 22, 2024 | Politics

Aragalaya: Struggle for Space and the Spaces of the Struggle Nihal Perera The Aragalaya was the largest gathering of people to protest a national government in Sri Lanka. February 2022 saw the emergence of small, spontaneous, and non-partisan candlelight vigils in and...