The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787357783 ISBN 13: 9781787357785

Publisher: UCL Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Intimate Life of Dissent examines the meanings and implications of public acts of dissent, drawing on examples including Sri Lankan leftists, Soviet dissidents, Tibetan exiles, Kurdish prisoners, British pacifists, Indonesian student activists, and Jewish peace activists.

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About the Authors

Harini Amarasuriya’s research interests include political and social movements, state society relations, and public policy. Prior to joining the Open University of Sri Lanka in 2011, she worked in the development sector, with organisations including UNICEF and CARE Sri Lanka. She was appointed in 2016 to the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka and was a member of the team that submitted a report to the Sri Lankan parliament on constitutional reforms based on public consultations.

Tobias Kelly's research interests include human rights, war and peace, and political and legal anthropology. He has carried out ethnographic and archival research in Israel/Palestine, the UK and at the UN. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 2003, and has worked at the Institute of Law of Birzeit University, the Crisis States Programme at the LSE, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University.

Sidharthan Maunaguru’s research interests are: the intersections of violence, kinship, marriage and state; transnational migration and political violence; politics and religion, and Diaspora. His work is placed within the South Asian region and beyond; it often includes multi-site fieldwork and intersects with anthropology, history and philosophy. He was awarded a PhD by Johns Hopkins University.

Since obtaining her PhD from Anthropology Department at UCL, Galina has engaged in ethnographic and archival research on anthropology of religion and political anthropology in Russia and the Balkans. Her current project explores a politico-ethical question of collective autonomy among Jews in the Soviet Union and Russia, with a specific focus on Anti-Zionism, Left-wing Jewish politics and alternative political configurations such as the Autonomous Jewish Province of Birobidzhan in the Far East.

Jonathan Spencer’s (FBA, FRSE) primary research site has been Sri Lanka. His original work there focused on rural change, politics and nationalism. He has since published extensively on the causes and consequences of ethnic violence. He has also published occasional articles on Buddhism, and on the institutional history of British anthropology. Since 2004 he has been involved in a string of collaborative projects with younger Sri Lankan colleagues, on politics and religion, and most recently on urban planning, and the history and ethics of political dissent. In this work he has increasingly experimented with new modes of North-South collaboration and co-writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787357783
• ISBN 13: 9781787357785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Amarasuriya Harini, Kelly Tobias, Maunaguru Sidharthan, Oustinova-Stjepanovic Galina, Spencer Jonathan