- Professor
- Date
- Tuesday 24 Oct 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 4.39
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
No registration is required to attend this event in-person.
Please send an email to Professor Wendy Harcourt at harcourt@iss.nl if you would like to receive the Zoom link to this event.
In this Research in Progress Seminar, Asoka Bandarage discusses her new book on Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis, taking into account the island's historical evolution with an emphasis on external political and economic ingtervention.
She focuses on the unequal global economy which set the framework for the debt and financial crisis in Sri Lanka.
The crisis is also explored within the context of the accelerating geo-political conflict between China and USA in the Indian Ocean.
Bandarage concludes with a consideration of the ethical dilemmas behind the debt and survival crisis in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, highlighting a range of social movements and initiatives which promote collective and ecological alternativew and a path to sustainability and peace.
- More information
The Research in Progress seminars provide an informal venue for presentations of ongoing research by ISS researchers and scholars from the wider development studies community.