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In each episode of this podcast, the host interviews students, researchers, academics, activists, and enthusiasts in the field of Arts and Humanities in Sri Lanka (and elsewhere) and attempts to highlight the role of Humanities in addressing important and pressing challenges through research, teaching and other academic/activist engagements. The objectives of this podcast are twofold; to call for active intervention within and among diverse fields in the Humanities in a bid to ‘resurrect’ th ...
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Episode 01 | Has the Revolution Gone on Holiday?: A Marxist Approach to the Crisis in the Arts and Humanities in Sri Lanka | with Kalpa Rajapaksha
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In our first episode, Kalpa and I discuss the crisis in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Sri Lanka from a Marxist approach particularly at a time when the Marxist paradigm is considered obsolete in research and academic interventions in Sri Lanka. We discuss how departmentalization, ‘academic individualism’ and privilege exacerbate the c…
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