Why Should Domestic Labour be Formalised in Sri Lanka?
Even though domestic workers have supported the country during the crisis, it has failed to recognize them as workers.
Sri Lanka’s Care Crisis
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has quietly devastated the lives of children, the disabled, the elderly, and their caretakers.
COVID-19 Exposes Faultlines in Sri Lanka’s Apparels Sector
The global pandemic and the national debt crisis collided to expose the claims of ethical garment production in Sri Lanka.
When Sri Lanka Operated Workers’ Councils
Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?
Eagles and Sharks: Financial Imperialism in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Is there a path out of the imperialist debt trap for South Asia's troubled economies?
Sri Lanka’s Dual Crisis: Ethnic Conflict & the Debt Economy
Reimagining a pluralist Sri Lanka in the wake of the ‘Gota Go Home’ movement.
Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards Further Turmoil: Roots of the 2022 Economic Crisis
Tracing colonial underdevelopment, incomplete industrialization and misplaced priorities in Sri Lanka.
“Strikes Are Normal Growing up”: Plantation Politics in Sri Lanka
An interview with Menaha Kandaswamy, former General Secretary of the Ceylon Plantation Workers’ Union.
Contestations over Land in Northern Sri Lanka
Rethinking hegemony and resistance in land conflicts in the post-civil war Sri Lankan North.
Women, Land and Livelihoods in Post-War Northern Sri Lanka
In post-war Sri Lanka, women navigate class, caste, gender, and religious discrimination to access land and livelihoods.
The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.
Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule