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Pradeep Jeganathan

 Pradeep Jeganathan was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he lives and works, engaged in a variety of intellectual, aesthetic and political projects. His research interests range from subaltern nationalism, to the perpetration of violence and its survival. He has published extensively on these subjects, and is, a co-author of the Encyclopedia Britannica's anchor article on Anthropology. His books, authored or edited include Living With Death (2007), At the Water's Edge (2004), Unmaking the Nation (1995|2009) and Subaltern Studies X1 (2001). He received his undergraduate education at MIT and Harvard, and his doctorate in Anthropology, with distinction, from the University of Chicago. He has held professorial appointments and fellowships at Chicago, Minnesota, The New School, Delhi University and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies.

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Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka (1995 | 2009).

Pradeep Jeganathan & Qadri Ismail (eds.)

Now in a 2nd Edition, with a new preface, and a comprehensive index.

"Stimulating... Excellent..." -- Journal of Asian Studies. 

"Will be of great value to all those concerned with... nationalism [and] violence..." -- Arjun Appadurai.

"...[F]orces us to think about Sri Lankan symbolic and social formations in an entirely novel fashion." -- Gananath Obeyesekere

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The first volume of Domains, (the refereed, scholarly journal of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka) contains:

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0974883921.jpgKanchana N. Ruwanpura's paper is "Dutiful Daughters, Sacrificing Sons: Female-Headed Households in Eastern Sri Lanka ," and she was, at the time, a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilians University ( Munich ) in the the Department of Economics & the Post-Colonial Studies program. She completed her Ph.D at Newnham College , Cambridge in 2001.

Ozren Pupovac is a member of the Department of Sociology, The Open University, Milton Keynes , United Kingdom . His paper is  "The Unconscious of Democracy: Ideological hegemony and nationalism in post-socialist Croatia ."

Ananda Abeysekara’s paper is  “Desecularizing Secularism: Post-secular history, non-juridical justice, & active forgetting .” He is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vir-ginia Polytechnich University , Virginia . He is the author of Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference (2004).

Regi Siriwardena edited Thatched Patio, later re-named Nethra, which he called ‘a non specialist journal for lively minds’ until 2003. A novelist, playwright and poet, he is one of Sri Lanka ’s foremost literary critics. His paper, “Said, the European Novel & Imperialism: A Critique,” is re-collected in Domains One.

Domains is edited by Senior Research Fellow, Pradeep Jeganathan.