by polity.lk | Jul 9, 2024 | Politics
Anatomy of a Protest and Aragalaya Cinema Hiranyada Dewasiri The 2022 people’s uprising and occupation movement in Sri Lanka, widely known as the Aragalaya, was heavily documented through film. This material has begun returning to the public in the form of documentary...
by polity.lk | Jul 1, 2024 | Politics
The conjuncture in the crisis B. Skanthakumar “Aaranchiya Subhai!” (‘Await Good News’) read posters plastered across the country recently. It was the build-up to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s televised speech on June 26, passing off a bad deal with official creditors on debt...
by polity.lk | Jun 24, 2024 | Politics
Ukraine: A People’s Peace, not an Imperial Peace Bewegung für den Sozialismus/Mouvement pour le Socialisme (Switzerland), solidaritéS (Switzerland), Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Media Collective (Russia), emanzipation – Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische...
by polity.lk | Jun 10, 2024 | Politics
Authoritarian Populism in the Global South Alf Gunvald Nilsen During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept...
by polity.lk | May 9, 2024 | Politics
#GoHomeGota: The Story Behind Sri Lanka’s Hashtagged Protest Movement. Sulochana Peiris. 2023. 51 minutes Oliver Walton, Deborah Johnson, and Jonathan Goodhand #GoHomeGota is a documentary by Colombo-based freelance filmmaker and writer Sulochana Peiris that explores...
by polity.lk | Apr 29, 2024 | Politics
Am I A Settler Too? Reflections of a Sinhalese from Sri Lanka after Gaza Nalin Jayathunga Mapping temporal and spatial lines between the past and the present, this reflection draws parallels between the Palestinian genocide and the Tamil genocide. It is premised on my...
