Anthropologist. Professor, Dept. of Sociology, U of Colombo. Smuts Fellow, Cambridge (2018/19). Visiting Fellow, ZMO Berlin (2016). Retweets not endorsements.
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The step by step guide to writing a novel that I really needed today. (No novel planned as of yet, but who knows).
Came out this week.
In this final #SLat75 post, @FaraFarout @ColomboUni looks ahead to what is on the horizon for the peoples of 🇱🇰 if & when they choose to bring new ideas & groups to power.
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Acc to Minister @premajayantha English4all happens next year #Budget2024
I wrote abt English edu in #SriLanka and reasons why this WONT be successful
wt recommendations for a #LanguagePolicy if @RW_UNP govt is ACTUALLY interested in reform /1
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"Pandemic Malevolence: Sri Lanka’s compulsory cremation policy and its Muslim victims" by Farzana Haniffa @FaraFarout
Part of //Pandemic War-Time: Dispatches from Occupied Lands//, a new AES collection edited by Ather Zia @aziakashmir
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Happy to be featured in this collection.
Check out this new collection of essays at AES:
Pandemic War-Time: Dispatches from Occupied Lands
Edited by Ather Zia @aziakashmir & featuring essays by @KWHassan1, @FaraFarout, @EminaBuzinkic, & Laura Adwan.
Find it here:⬇️
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Super important development. Utrecht University has withdrawn from the World University rankings. Will do all of us in the local uni system in SL to take a look as to why it has done that. I would especially recommend the readings linked to the thread below.
Utrecht University @UniUtrecht in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking @THEworldunirank provided by @timeshighered. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16
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History is the top earning major for alumni in the University of Colorado system. Even over sciences. Amazing!
Still flabbergasted by this data released about earnings of @CUBoulder alums. Take a look-see at that there top line. Feel free to share this with the next troll who asks you what you can do with a degree in History.
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Happening this Friday, "Ethnographic Photography" with @David_Blacker
9-11am at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo.
DM or email for more info.
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Following @RBReich undergrad class on Wealth and Inequality. Trying to fill the gaps in my training to understand and teach what is going on in SL. The class is great. Very US centric but excellent use of data and clear enough that the concepts translate. Available on Substack.
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1/ 🧵 with a few thoughts about the Freedom Pride Parade, which was held yesterday in Colombo
#PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023 #lka
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if you've never seen what it looks like when a city rises to the defense of a people's protest that's being attacked by fascist goons, well, here you go.
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The Supreme Court granted Leave to Proceed in 4 FR cases filed by students of Al - Zuhriya Arabic College, Karative, Puttalam today (8/5/23). These students who at the time of the incident were 14, 12, 11 and 14 respectively complained to the SC stating that they were (1/6)
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Notes from a habeas corpus case, Vavuniya 23.02.23. On Thursday, in a dusty courtroom, a judge delivered a damning verdict. Softly spoken, he called each of the three women to the front. Kanthi was first to stand up. She was in tears. One by one the judge’s orders were identical.
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"Neoliberalism, Public Policies & Institutional Decay: How did the present economic crisis emerge in Sri Lanka?"
14 February 3pm-4.30pm at the Faculty Board Room
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New semester, re-vamped old course on Masculinities--a subject I love teaching & learning about--for a US undergraduate classroom. Sharing in case folks are interested. Also, since it's just the first day, would love recommendations for readings/films.
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Department of Sociology, Seminar Series, Faculty of Arts @ColomboUni
"Gridlocked: the high costs of low-income urban living" by @CollyerMC on 9 January from 3-4.30pm at the Faculty Board Room, University of Colombo & on Zoom. (DM for zoom link) #cities
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