Alternate Discourses on Development: Monograph Series

“Development has become the grand strategy through which the transformation of the not-yet-too-rational Latin-American/Third World subjectivity is to be achieved. In this way, longstanding cultural practices and meanings – as well as the social relations in which they are embedded – are altered. The consequences of this are enormous, to the extent that the very [...]

Alternate Space: Trivial Writings of an Academic

Alternate Space: Trivial Writings of an Academic
consists of 48 essays on different aspects of Sri Lankan society, culture and politics originally written to the Sri Lankan national daily The Island under the regular column Alternate Space by Sasanka Perera between January 2002 and January 2003, and less regularly between January and May 2004.  The book [...]

Frozen Tears: Political Violence, Women, Children and Problems of Trauma in Southern Sri Lanka

Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in the Kandyan highlands and through a presentation of individuals’ personal narratives, this book (second edition, 2005) by Indika Bulankulame explores how individuals deal with and address a past filled with political violence and trauma with a focus on women and children (ISBN 955-1493-06-0).

 Reviews of the books:
“One of Bulankulame’s [...]