...vor 115 Jahren – 23.4.1906:
Eie städtische Volkslesehalle und Volksbibliothek in der Seminarstraße 1 [Ecke Grabengasse, neben dem Hexenturm, abgerissen] wird eröffnet [später Stadt- und Volksbücherei, Hauptstraße 197, später Plöck 2a].
How can we read and interpret citizenship over a longue duree? This talk considers the practices, moral judgments and imaginaries that constitute the political in Ceylon/Sri Lanka at various moments in time: in 1931, when men and women over 21 years of age in the crown colony were bestowed with universal suffrage; in 1948 when citizenship laws made stateless most of the plantation workers in the island and in 2014-2015 when an active citizenry used their vote to oust an authoritarian leader. The political is shown as a ‘space of appearance’ (Arendt), ephemeral and differentiated.
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