Polity Vol. 10 No. 2 (December 2022) Polity Archive Editorial – Terror as Stability 2023 Budget: False Promises at the Expense of Women and Working People – Feminist Collective for Economic Justice ‘The Writing Was on the Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka – Jayati Ghosh The Election of Ranil Wickremesinghe: Reaction and Prospects for Democratic Revival in Sri Lanka – Devaka Gunawardena Situation Nominal, Tense Future – Vajra Chandrasekera “Galle Face was Important, but Not the Whole Thing” – Dileepa Witharana Economic Crisis and Resistance in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka – Thavarasa Anukuvi The Postcolonial Handbook of Violent Repression: Constructing Citizens as Enemies, Fascists, Extremists, Drug Addicts, Terrorists, etc., etc. – Chulani Kodikara Reflections on State Formation in Sri Lanka – Sunil Bastian Outline of a Redistributive State in the Southern Periphery – Devaka Gunawardena (Changing) Economic Policies, (Increasing) Pressure on Land, and the (Continuing) Challenge of Land Governance in Sri Lanka – Urs Geiser Solidarity among Women in Politics in Sri Lanka: Potentials and Challenges – Nadine Vanniasinkam and Viyanga Gunasekera We are “Our Own Crisis”: Locating the ‘Crisis in Education’ – Jagath Weerasinghe ‘Is there an Asian Bioethics?’ Bob Simpson on Alternative Understandings of Ethics in Medicine – Darshi Thoradeniya “The Disaster (Before and) After the Disaster”: Writing the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami – Gnei Soraya Zarook Selvi: Loss, Dissent, and Hope – Sivamohan Sumathy Untitled – ‘Chitra’