by polity.lk | May 9, 2024 | Politics
#GoHomeGota: The Story Behind Sri Lanka’s Hashtagged Protest Movement. Sulochana Peiris. 2023. 51 minutes Oliver Walton, Deborah Johnson, and Jonathan Goodhand #GoHomeGota is a documentary by Colombo-based freelance filmmaker and writer Sulochana Peiris that explores...
by polity.lk | May 6, 2024 | Palestine
Resisting Genocide in Gaza: Is a New Political Imaginary Possible? Devaka Gunawardena Watching the protests opposing genocide in Gaza on college campuses across the US, and which are now spreading like wildfire to other Western countries, one is struck by the visual...
by polity.lk | Apr 29, 2024 | Politics
Am I A Settler Too? Reflections of a Sinhalese from Sri Lanka after Gaza Nalin Jayathunga Mapping temporal and spatial lines between the past and the present, this reflection draws parallels between the Palestinian genocide and the Tamil genocide. It is premised on my...
by polity.lk | Apr 21, 2024 | Agrarian Studies
James Brow, Anuradhapura 1984, and the Question of Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka Jonathan Spencer James Brow was a British anthropologist who drifted from the nascent counter-culture of early 1960s London, to the mid-1960s West Coast of the USA, where he found a...
by polity.lk | Apr 16, 2024 | Human Rights
Sacrificing Accountability to Save the Official Narrative: The UK’s Legacy Act of 2023 and Parallels in Sri Lanka Daniel Holder In September 2023, the UK parliament passed The Northern Ireland Troubles (Reconciliation and Legacy) Act entrenching immunity for crimes...
