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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 second volume of Domains, (the refereed, scholarly journal of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka) contains: (Click to order it now from Amazon!)DomCov2.jpg

 

Selvi’s Revenge by Mangalika de Silva

 

 Ethnic differences and urban neighbourhood relationships among slum dwellers of Colombo by Niriellage Chandrasiri Niriella

 

 Towards a political economy of Sri Lanka’s ‘ethnic’ conflict by Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Broken Glass:Women, Violence and the Rule of Law by Radhika Coomaraswamy, which is a Domains Re-Collection.

 

Mangalika de Silva is a PhD student of anthropology at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Niriellage Chandrasiri Niriella is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Urban Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.  Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography, University of Oxford.

Radhika Coomaraswamy directs the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo and chairs Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission. She served as United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women for a decade.

 

Domains is edited by Senior Research Fellow Pradeep Jeganathan.

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