Owls, once seen as harbingers of death, are now celebrated in popular literature and culture in North America and Britain.
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Artículos sobre Sri Lanka
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Africa needs to advocate more aggressively for its own interests when it comes to negotiating debt terms.
After months of indefinite postponement, presidential and parliamentary elections will finally be held over the next two years.
India is pursuing a policy of pleasing the ruling elites in its neighbourhood, which it hopes will serve its national aspirations to become a regional powerhouse like China.
From Myanmar to Pakistan, these countries have long-simmering conflicts or increasingly dissatisfied publics that could worsen in the new year.
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them.
Sri Lanka is just one of a number of countries in which IMF loan conditions appear to be mainly burdening supporters of the opposition.
Shankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, which explores Australian racism and the Sri Lankan civil war, is ‘extraordinary’.
The six books on this year’s Miles Franklin shortlist vary in style, themes and the writers’ experience, with veteran novelists and debuts – including an international prize-winner and a 26-year-old.
Using the state budget as collateral it is too risky a move when it comes to dealing with Beijing.
A new study looks back into history to assess human impacts on the range of Asian elephants and finds sharp decline starting several centuries ago.
There are a range of new flashpoints and ongoing deadly conflicts the world has largely ignored due to the focus on Ukraine.
After the roaring success of Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack have produced another play that will captivate audiences.
Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winning novel is a black comedy about the afterlife, a murder mystery, and a political satire set against the violent backdrop of the late-1980s Sri Lankan civil war.
Sophie Cunningham’s novel about Leonard Woolf and the contemporary writer attempting to tell his story is wry and earnest – and yes, devastating when it needs to be.
The impacts of COVID-19 must be incorporated into women, peace and security planning in order to improve the lives of women and girls in postwar countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Four different female presidents led three Asian nations in recent decades. What does their legislative record tell us about the impact women leaders can have on women’s lives?
How Sri Lanka ran out of foreign currency to pay for imports is a story of fiscal imprudence, unsustainable exchange rate policy and chronic mismanagement.
An expert on Sri Lanka’s economy identifies and explains three key challenges that Ranil Wickremesinghe will have to overcome if he hopes to steer the country out of its crisis.
Protests over shortages forced the ouster of Sri Lanka’s president, but the crisis has deep-set roots in ethnonationalism, which has encouraged corruption, argues an expert on the country’s politics.
Principales colaboradores
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Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University, and Researcher at Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University
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Reader in Human Rights, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Teaching and Research in Environmental Biology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor, School of Law, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University
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Paul James es Amigo de The Conversation.
Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
