Sivamohan Sumathy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 211436 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sivamohan Sumathy |
| NOMBRES | Sivamohan |
| APELLIDO | Sumathy |
| FIRMA | SUMATHY S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Peradeniya |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The 'Cultural Life' of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)
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 the space to think through what makes up the ‘cultural life’ of democracy in aragalya and beyond. The trope of the ‘cultural life’ of democracy enables these contributions to sketch an alternative way of theorising democracy as ‘actually existing politics’
Conversations in a Time of Crisis
Kuppi in Sinhala and Tamil refers to a small oil lamp, a vial. On university campuses in Sri Lanka, kuppi is the figurative term for a student-led informal study group led by a "smarter" or senior student. Informed by the complexities of university life, kuppi signifies a politics and pedagogy happening on the margins of the lecture hall. It parodies, subverts, and simultaneously reaffirms social hierarchies. Drawing upon this conceit, a group of…
My Teacher Talks of a Sri Lankan English”
The paper is an interrogation of the politics surrounding the debate on the idea of Sri Lankan English and the self-fashioning of the writer/intellectual within this operation. The idea of Sri Lankan English has been in circulation since the 1960s as a self-conscious postcolonial movement of identity formation. In early 2009 the government of Sri Lanka inaugurated the program “Speak English Our way,” bestowing upon Sri Lankan English official san…
Salt, sand and water
‘Salt, Sand and Water’ is the outcome of a writing project that evolved out of a series of workshops in theatre and writing carried out in Sri Lanka over a period of three weeks in 2004. The workshops brought together 14 Muslim and Tamil women into a dialogue about the condition of displacement that has become an integral part of the decades-long ethnic conflict and ensuing civil war in Sri Lanka. Having lived as neighbours, these women were thro…
Salt, sand and water
‘Salt, Sand and Water’ is the outcome of a writing project that evolved out of a series of workshops in theatre and writing carried out in Sri Lanka over a period of three weeks in 2004. The workshops brought together 14 Muslim and Tamil women into a dialogue about the condition of displacement that has become an integral part of the decades-long ethnic conflict and ensuing civil war in Sri Lanka. Having lived as neighbours, these women were thro…
Salt, sand and water
‘Salt, Sand and Water’ is the outcome of a writing project that evolved out of a series of workshops in theatre and writing carried out in Sri Lanka over a period of three weeks in 2004. The workshops brought together 14 Muslim and Tamil women into a dialogue about the condition of displacement that has become an integral part of the decades-long ethnic conflict and ensuing civil war in Sri Lanka. Having lived as neighbours, these women were thro…
My Teacher Talks of a Sri Lankan English”
The paper is an interrogation of the politics surrounding the debate on the idea of Sri Lankan English and the self-fashioning of the writer/intellectual within this operation. The idea of Sri Lankan English has been in circulation since the 1960s as a self-conscious postcolonial movement of identity formation. In early 2009 the government of Sri Lanka inaugurated the program “Speak English Our way,” bestowing upon Sri Lankan English official san…
Conversations in a Time of Crisis
Kuppi in Sinhala and Tamil refers to a small oil lamp, a vial. On university campuses in Sri Lanka, kuppi is the figurative term for a student-led informal study group led by a "smarter" or senior student. Informed by the complexities of university life, kuppi signifies a politics and pedagogy happening on the margins of the lecture hall. It parodies, subverts, and simultaneously reaffirms social hierarchies. Drawing upon this conceit, a group of…
The 'Cultural Life' of Democracy in Sri Lanka (And Beyond)
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 the space to think through what makes up the ‘cultural life’ of democracy in aragalya and beyond. The trope of the ‘cultural life’ of democracy enables these contributions to sketch an alternative way of theorising democracy as ‘actually existing politics’
Anthropology (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 obras) · South asia (2 obras) · Sri lanka (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 obras)