‘Living for the Day’: Informality, gender, and precarious work in the Sri Lankan apparel industry

Shyamain Wickramasingha

by polity.lk | Dec 13, 2022 | Intervention

‘Living for the Day’: Informality, gender, and precarious work in the Sri Lankan apparel industry Shyamain Wickramasingha Informality is highly prevalent in the Sri Lankan apparel industry in the Katunayake export processing zone where there has been a labour shortage...

Policing the Patriline: Reading the Current Economic and Political Crisis through the Plantation

Mythri Jegathesan

by polity.lk | Dec 6, 2022 | Intervention

Policing the Patriline: Reading the Current Economic and Political Crisis through the Plantation Mythri Jegathesan In late December 2021, the Ministry of Plantation Industries announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of...

No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour

Chulani Kodikara

by polity.lk | Nov 30, 2022 | Intervention

No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour Chulani Kodikara As part of Sri Lanka’s economic bailout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is telling us that we should increase women’s labour force participation.  It is part of a recommendation about ‘growth-enhancing...

Women’s Labour Force Participation: Choice Versus Necessity

Ranmini Vithanagama

by polity.lk | Nov 25, 2022 | Intervention

Women’s Labour Force Participation: Choice Versus Necessity Ranmini Vithanagama The benefits of women’s labour force participation (LFP) have been broadly discussed along two strands. The first is its utilitarian value. According to International Monetary Fund...

‘Is there an Asian Bioethics? Alternative Understandings of Ethics in Medicine’

Bob Simpson

by polity.lk | Nov 14, 2022 | Interview

‘Is there an Asian Bioethics? Alternative Understandings of Ethics in Medicine’ Bob Simpson Peripheral Visions: Anthropological Perspectives on Bioethics, Biomedicine and Biotechnologies in Sri Lanka, (Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo 2022), reflects on the...