by polity.lk | Mar 3, 2022 | Essay
Colombo’s Gentrification: The ‘Right to the City’ during Neoliberalism Hasini Lecamwasam IntroductionOne thing that classical economists seem to agree on with their colleagues of a more leftist persuasion is that cities are all about spatial concentration, with a view...
by polity.lk | Feb 23, 2022 | Intervention
The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Progressive Alternative Devaka Gunawardena The current crisis in Sri Lanka is not only a political crisis of the regime of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. It is also a structural breakdown of the way in which neoliberalism has historically...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2022 | Speech
Relevance of an Alternative Film-Culture Today Laleen Jayamanne Thank you for inviting me to speak on Dharmasena Pathiraja’s fourth death anniversary, on the ‘Relevance of an Alternative Film-Culture Today’, the topic suggested to me by the organisers. My talk has two...
by polity.lk | Feb 9, 2022 | Review
A History of Unfortunate Circumstances Hasini A. Haputhanthri‘A Day in July 2019’ by Rajitha Dissanayake, 2022, Lionel Wendt, Colombo This play has been long in the making. A string of unfortunate circumstances induced by the pandemic resulted in the postponement of...
by polity.lk | Feb 3, 2022 | Review
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India. Geoffrey Redding. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 240 pp Reviewed by Farzana Haniffa Redding’s book lays out the manner in which regardless of the horrendous anti- Muslim violence...
