Rural women’s resistance to neoliberal agricultural reform: the women of Monaragala Sri Lanka

Buddhima Padmasiri | Samanthi Gunawardana | July 8, 2021

Although often depicted as victims of climate change, poverty, land dispossession or gendered violence, rural women from agrarian communities are active political agents who seek to dismantle gendered relations and structures of colonial power. From countries in Latin America, South Asia, [...]

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Rethinking Microfinance in Post-War Sri Lanka: Mobilisation and Call for Reform

Samanthi Gunawardana | April 14, 2020

“First, it was the tsunami that destroyed our community. Then came the war. Now, it’s microfinance.” — Jesudadan Rajitha, The Federation of Women’s Rural Development Societies.

As the COVID-19 pandemic charts its savage path around the world, it is predicted that [...]

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