by polity.lk | Aug 14, 2025 | Labour
Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne Nadeera Rajapakse After performing in several theatres across Paris, Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera bewitched the spectators, students, and startled passers-by at the Pantheon Centre of the University Paris 1,...
by polity.lk | Aug 6, 2025 | Labour
‘When the Devil Drums, We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri LankaRadhika Hettiarachchi In the context of Sri Lanka’s civil war, transactional sex work was a particularly dangerous survival strategy for some women[1]; not least because they bear the...
by polity.lk | Jul 31, 2025 | Religion
Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Alexander McKinley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Anushka Kahandagamage Between the lines of this book, the Siripāda mountain emerges not merely as a place, but as a living,...
by polity.lk | Jul 24, 2025 | Editorial, B. Skanthakumar, Chulani Kodikara, Rebecca Surenthiraraj
Editorial: There is great disorder under heaven Editors The post-1990 world order—an ensemble of norms, rules, and institutions, informed by economic and political liberalism—is in disarray. The façade of an inter-state system based on rules not power, free trade not...
by polity.lk | Jul 17, 2025 | Culture
The ‘Radical Impulse’ in Music in Pre- and Post-Partition India Sumangala Damodaran From its second decade, the 20th century saw the need for a people’s art, a need to represent, unearth, popularise, and express through forms that emerged from and belonged to ‘the...
