Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping
Right at the beginning of his book, ‘The Killing Fields of Inequality’ Göran Therborn says ‘Inequality is a violation of human dignity; it is a denial of the possibility for everybody’s human
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The starting point of the analysis in this short article is to question theconventional approach to studying a state.The conventional approach treatsthe state as a concrete, self-contained entity that has attained a
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This short contribution analyses the crisisthat Sri Lankan society is facing today to be result of contradictions arising from two processes in the specific Sri Lankan context: efforts to sustain the post-war
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This short article explains a framework for analysing Sri Lankan state formation and understanding the current challenges that the country is facing. My interest in state formation began when trying to make
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Capitalist transition within a state is a process that involves changing institutions or the ‘rules of the game’, so that markets become the primary mechanism for resource allocation. These changes must be
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The post-war Sri Lankan state’s inability to fulfil the demands of global finance capital has devastated the lives of millions of Sri Lankans. This is a country where we see the socio-economic
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