| International McCarthyism: The Case of Rhoda Miller de Silva |
Judy Waters Pasqualge |
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In 1954 Rhoda Miller (married to Sri Lankan Joe de Silva) was labelled as a subversive and deported from Sri Lanka (Ceylon). A journalist born in New York state who had already published books on post-war Poland and the Rosenberg case, Rhoda, with the assistance of friends in New York, would successfully challenge the United States-inspired deportation and return to Sri Lanka.
There she became noted for her hard-hitting weekly column in the Ceylon Daily News on current affairs. This book contains forty of these articles, as well as excerpts from several of her books. It also contains an examination of her 'life and times,' a story that weaves in and out of the US during the New Deal and Cold War, the Russia of her Jewish immigrant parents (and those of her first cousin, writer and activist Howard Fast), and Sri Lanka in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. |
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| The Royal ‘We’
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| Sinhala identity in the dynastic state |
| Alan Strathern |
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This
essay explores the nature of the Sinhala identity in the Kandyan
Kingdom through a critical reading of Michael Roberts’
recent book, Sinhala Consciousness. It situates Roberts’
work in the context of the heated intellectual debates on
this subject and compares the treatment of these issues in
Sri Lankan studies with recent scholarship on Southeast Asia.
The position of the author is that a wave of recent theoretical
work has tended to underestimate the potential for ethnic
solidarity in the early modern period. On the other hand the
kind of Sinhala identity that we see in this era of dynastic
politics differs in certain crucial ways from that which came
to flourish in the modern nation-state.
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| Negotiating Household
Politics |
| Women’s
strategies in urban Sri Lanka |
| Sepali Kottegoda |
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What
roles do women play in the survival of low-income urban
households? Are household survival strategies collective
efforts, and/or do individual members follow their own independent
strategies? Do women compared to men have different perceptions
of their rights and obligations? What are the gender differentials
in access to resources in the household? How do women combine
economic strategies with those arising out of their ascribed
positions as caregiver and nurturer in the family? And,
what roles do state economic and social development programmes
play in relation to these women?
Drawing on early research for her doctoral thesis, Sri Lankan
feminist Sepali Kottegoda incisively discusses these and
other relatedquestions in Negotiating Household Politics.
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“The
long-awaited publication from Sepali Kottegoda is a path-breaking
study on how Sri Lankan women manage to maintain household
survival. It is based on sociological research on women’s
resourcefulness and resilience in the face of poverty. This
book will be of great interest to women’s groups, the
general reader and policy makers”. – Kumari Jayawardene |
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| Writing
that Conquers |
| Re-reading
Knox’s an historical relation of the land
Ceylon |
| Sarojini Jayawickrama |
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“This is a
new and exciting project: a study of Robert Knox’s writings
on Ceylon, putting them into relation with modern critical
theory. Dr Jayawickrama is an expert on the history of Sri
Lanka and up to date with studies of gender and of ‘the
other’. She has brought these things together very insightfully
in order to re-read Knox from the standpoint of narrative
theory, and studies of autobiographical confession. The result
is a major piece of writing that presents a counter-memory
of the history of colonialism, making the colonizer the ‘other’”.
Dr. Jeremy Tambling – Professor of Comparative Literature,
the University of Hong Kong.
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| Police-Civil
Relations for Good Governance |
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| Laksiri Fernando |
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This new work of Laksiri Fernando
is based mainly on filed research conducted in the Kalutara
District and investigates some of the socio-political dynamics
of police-civil relations in Sri Lanka as a major problem
area of good governance. The aim of the investigation has
been to identify necessary measures for the policy makers,
both at the governmental and non-governmental levels, and
to improve relations between the two sectors in a democratic
fashion. |
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| Great
Days |
| memoirs
of a Ceylon government medical officer of 1918
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| P.
R. C. Peterson Edited by Manel Fonseka |
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Great
Days is an affectionate recollection by a 92-year-old Sri
Lankan doctor, of his youth in Colombo and thirty years in
government service, in many parts of the island, until his
retirement in 1948.
“A wonderful, moving memoir of the ‘generous life’
of a doctor in Sri Lanka in the early twentieth century. What
would have been lost forever is beautifully caught…”
– Michael Ondaatje |
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| Cat’s
Eye |
| A feminist gaze on current issues |
| Edited by Malathi De Alwis |
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Cat’s
Eye is the popular weekly column which for five years has
provided a feminist point of view on the political, social
and cultural issues immediately relevant to contemporary life
particularly in Sri Lanka and South Asia. Since its first
appearance the column has never failed to provoke thought
and debate, while being at various times critical, controversial,
entertaining, irritating, funny, informative and celebratory.
This selection of the best of Cat’s Eye will introduce
new readers to a range of its feminist analysis and encourage
them to reflect on gender issues. For its regular readers
this book will be a return to the alternative voice and vision
for society that Cat’s Eye stands for.
“Cat’s
Eye is among …the most commendable of women’s
pages…using an overtly feminist discourse, it is perhaps
the only column that deals with the issues of power, family,
personal relationships and ideology…It was the only
women’s column…which spoke out against…”the
demonizing of Susanthika””.
Dharshini Seneviratne
Media Monitor, Vol 1, No 1. |
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| Conflict
Resolution and Peace Building |
| An introduction
to theories and practices |
| Edited by Jayadeva
Uyangoda |
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Conflict
Resolution and Peace Building has been published by GTZ Sri
Lanka in collaboration with Improving Capacities for Poverty/Social
Policy Research (IMCAP) and Department of Political Science
and Public Policy of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This publication is an important contribution to the efforts
to increase collaboration among young scholars from different
Sri Lankan Universities working on critical social issues
relevant to Sri Lanka and strengthen teaching and research
within Sri Lankan Universities on policy relevant topics,
thus establishing more linkages between academics and practitioners.
The significance of this publication need not be stressed
in view of the relative lack of comprehensive textbooks on
conflict studies with a clear focus on the Sri Lankan context. |
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| Forces
and Strands in Sri Lanka’s Cricket History |
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| Michael Roberts |
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This
is a reprint of chapter entitled “Sri Lanka; the power
of cricket and the power in cricket,” in Stephen Wagg
edited Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age,
London and New York: Routledge 2005, pp 132-58. This book
has a striking collection of essays by such sports analysts
as Brett Hutchins, Greg Ryan, Jon Gemmell & James Hamill,
Sharad Ugra, Satadaru Sen, Chris Valiotis, Stephen Wagg, Tim
Crabbe, Chris Searle, Nick Miller and last, but not least,
the incomparable Mike Marqusee. |
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Tesawalamai:
Protection of community rights or discrimination
of women? |
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| Ambika Satkunanathan |
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This
monograph is one of a series on the customary laws of Sri Lanka
and the General Law that examines legal provisions which discriminate
against women. It explains in simple language the legal status
of women in Tesawalamai–the customary law applicable to
the Tamil inhabitants of the Northern Province. The aim of the
SSA in publishing such monographs is to promote changes in the
out-dated discriminatory laws of Sri Lanka. |
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