by polity.lk | Oct 22, 2025 | Gender
Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. F. Zahrah Rizwan Groundbreaking is the word that echoes through Kaushalya Ariyarathne’s book, Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of...
by polity.lk | Dec 12, 2024 | Gender
Victims or Saviours? Women in Climate Adapted Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone Nethmi Bathige In recent years, both the government of Sri Lanka as well as national and international development organisations have collaborated to implement climate...
by polity.lk | Nov 6, 2024 | Gender
Soft Authoritarianism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Backlash Against Women’s Rights in Europe Shalini Randeria This talk[1] connects several of my scholarly interests over the last decades in an anthropology of the state, legal anthropology, population policies, gender,...
by polity.lk | Aug 5, 2024 | Gender
Child Marriages in Muslim Families in Batticaloa and Ampara Hasanah Cegu, Ermiza Tegal, and Nadia Ismail Child marriages occur in all communities in Sri Lanka, and teenage pregnancies are a concern nationwide. Unlike the approach towards this harmful practice in other...
by polity.lk | Jul 29, 2024 | Gender
Mary and Manju Emmanuel, Sarala (Director). 2021-2024. 19 mins and 24 mins respectively Pasan Jayasinghe Contemporary social conversations about trans people often do not actually involve trans people. Instead, they are unnamed, unheard cyphers in venomous exchanges...
