by polity.lk | Aug 30, 2021 | Interview
‘The government didn’t care’: Katunayake Free Trade Zone Workers in the Pandemic in Sri Lanka During the first coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Sri Lanka for over two months, beginning 20th March 2020, workers in the export processing zones faced immense hardship as...
by polity.lk | Aug 17, 2021 | Photo article
An Homage to our Workers Stephen Champion Farmer, Vavuniya, 1994 Stone breaker,Kandy, 1989 Tea plucker, Maskeliya, 1991 Traditional medicine shop assistant, Kandy, 2018 Woman harvesting paddy, Jaffna, 1989 Road labourer, Kandy, 2018 Betel leaf vendor, Pettah, Colombo,...
by polity.lk | Aug 17, 2021 | Literary
Maligawatte, 2020 Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Three women have been trampled to death during a stampede for an $8 cash handout in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo amid growing desperation among Sri Lankans struggling to make ends meet during a coronavirus lockdown – News...
by polity.lk | Aug 9, 2021 | Photo article
Reflections from a State Quarantine Centre during COVID19: Militarisation of the Welfare State in Sri Lanka Thavarasa Anukuvi Sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959) defines sociological imagination as a vivid awareness of how personal experiences and personal challenges...
by polity.lk | Jul 26, 2021 | Workshops
Enhancing Civic Education: Residential Workshops for Ordinary Level Students and Teachers (January – February 2019) ) The SSA organized four-day residential workshops in Colombo for students and teachers following Civic Education at the Ordinary Level. The workshops...
