This paper argues that Muslim feminisms emerge as spatially differentiated strategies and
tactics to accommodate local varieties of Muslim “informal sovereignties”. These informal …

Development is an important, yet contentious word, in the history of post‐colonial Sri Lanka.
Typically, it is linked with economic progress and societal change, intricately woven into …

This forum brings together reflections on Sri Lanka's recent political struggles (aragalya) that
ousted the incumbent president, and yet ended in political stasis. These reflections provide …

Like other conflict-torn societies, Sri Lankans have long sought to build peace through
constitutional re-design with devolution of power and minority protections. However, the …

In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka's agrarian sphere, through the
gaze of 'critical agrarian studies'.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the …

Amid a suffocating consensus on austerity, any opportunity to expand on the current stakes
of Left strategy in Sri Lanka must be seen as a small victory. The debate provoked by my …

Based on field research in Eastern Sri Lanka, we found that land conflicts can emerge for
very practical reasons–when groups of people struggle to get access to state land, when …

At this very moment, the people of Sri Lanka face the daunting challenge of an economic
crisis that loomed for long, but then escalated through the 'balance of payment problem' …