exciting! just out! #OpenAccess ebook 🙏 to Handelshögskolan Gbg edited 📕 with Amjad Mohamed-Saleem (PhD) our 📖 w/Routledge Books RoutledgeAreaStudies Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies 🙏 to Dorothea Schaefter G ✺ D MACKAY #AcademicChatter #OpenAccess #srilanka #aragalaya taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…

Fantastic news. Such a rich collections. Specialists will find familiar topics of course but also so many new dimensions and less known sources and authors are discussed in each of these chapters (many of whom Sri Lankan).

#Mustread piece by senior political scientist Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on #SriLanka's current political landscape, uncertainty around elections, and prospects should they be held: 1/3 polity.lk/sri-lankas-pre…… via PolityLK

What’s the most remarkable thing about the presidential election campaign so far? The near total absence of any discussion of the executive presidency (and the need for its abolition). 1/

SAVE THE DATES: We look forward to welcoming you at UCLan Cyprus on 26-28 May 2025 for the “Contested Borderlands as Spaces of Negotiation and Adaptation” conference. Here’s the website with more information: brit.uclancyprus.ac.cy

The blessings of the universe have enabled this #Booklaunch tomorrow at St. Xaviers College, #Ranchi. My two greatest support systems are here to share this moment with us. What a blessing to have Bina D'Costa n Prabha Rani talk about our book on #CamilleBulcke. रवि दत्त बाजपेयी Ravi Dutt Bajpai

A million dollar question! What is the population of northern #Cyprus? In this episode of Figure It, Sapienta Economics director Fiona Mullen hosts senior PRIOCyprusCentre reseacher Mete Hatay to discuss this much speculated issue with numbers. islandtalks.fm/podcast/figure… #Cypruspodcast

Finally received the hard copy of the new book #RoutledgeHandbookofContemporarySriLanka coedited Kanchana N Ruwanpura 🐞💙🍀 published Taylor&Francis News as a good reference guide for #SriLanka with a bunch of new authors and insight. Despite all challenges we feel hope for the potential.

And hopefully the last!

#SriLanka: Leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday emerged winner in Sri Lanka’s presidential race, obtaining a mandate that signals a clean break from the island nation’s political establishment and ushers in unprecedented change - reporting The Hindu

Dr. Harini Amarasuriya 🥂 🥳 🙌 the new Prime Minister of #SriLanka School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh graduate! GENDER.ED @ University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh make note of this historic moment in 🇱🇰 a woman politician making it from outside political family circles @tobiaswkelly @genderpol Jo Shaw

Now this is something you can write a poem about. Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister (not from dynastic politics that is). A victory to working, voting women in Sri Lanka. #PE2024 #SriLankaElections

#SriLanka: President Dissanayake picks MP and former academic Harini Amarasuriya as PM  Read about Sri Lanka's 3rd woman PM's India connection, academic career, and activism 👇 thehindu.com/news/internati… via The Hindu

Snap parliamentary election on Nov 14 Nominations from Oct 4 to Oct 11 First sitting of the new parliament Nov 21.

Prof.Jayadewa Uyangoda

How should we rethink decolonisation when it is hijacked by authoritarian forces? A few thoughts from me: hope they help all those grappling with these pressing issues, inc profs & students. Do read+spread this open access article American Anthropologist ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/am…

excited to share ✍️ by Thiruni Kelegama and me for The Conversation to celebrate #SriLanka 's political rupture and moment of hope ✨ a ⛰️ to climb but "The winds of change could finally have arrived" theconversation.com/sri-lankas-new… via The Conversation

This is huge! After decades of anti-colonial campaigning by Chagos Islanders, the UK begrudgingly gives in. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake secures agreement with IMF delegation today to discuss “alternative approaches” to reach the objectives of the $2.9 billion bailout program. AKD wants to reduce taxes on lower income groups.

Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka A discussion with Jayadeva Uyangoda and author bart klem on his new book Monday 21st October 2024 at 4.00 PM at the ICES Sri Lanka Colombo Auditorium