Articles by Rajni Gamage


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Rajni Gamage (rajninus at gmail.com) is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests are the politics of governance and state transformation, and development and inequality in Sri Lanka. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from University of Queensland; a Post-doctorate from NUS; an MSc in International Relations from RSIS, NTU, and a BSc in Political Science from NUS. Her writing includes Authoritarian Politics and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Survey (2024), Reforms in Sri Lanka: Emerging Trends in Elite Politics (2023), and Buddhist Nationalism, Authoritarian Populism and the Muslim Other in Sri Lanka (2021).


Culture, Democracy, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue

Crisis, resistance, and the lure of liberal nation-building

Writing together as activist scholars, as people committed to thinking about the practice of collective struggle, we consider Sri Lanka's landscape of state crisis, popular resistance, and liberal reform. [...]

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by Rajni Gamage , 1 year ago