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...
by polity.lk | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog
On the Life and Work of Gananath Obeyesekere – Call for Articles Polity magazine invites contributions for a forum dedicated to the life, scholarship, and intellectual legacy of Professor Gananath Obeyesekere (02 February 1930–25 March 2025), longtime friend of...
