Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives

The book provides an in-depth analysis of 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 intervention. The book discusses the unequal economic and financial architecture of the global economy which set the framework for the debt and socio-economic crisis in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. The book also explores the emergence of the crisis in the context of the accelerating geopolitical conflict between China and the USA in the Indian Ocean. The book concludes with a consideration of the ethical dilemmas behind the debt and survival crisis in Sri Lanka and across the world. It points out a range of social movements and initiatives in Sri Lanka and the Global South which subscribe to collective and ecological alternatives and a path of sustainability and social justice.