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Sri Lanka | France

Research Interests

Violence | Memory | Fighters | Sri Lankan Tamils

Institutional Subunit

ISCTE

Biographical Note

Giacomo Mantovan received his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2015 from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Netherlands, 2016-2017), at Stanford (fall 2017), at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of Edinburgh University (2018). His main research interests are violence, war and its aftermath, fighters, life stories, memory, the body, experience, diasporas, asylum policies, the link between individuals, groups and institutions, Sri Lankan Tamils and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE).

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Data updated on 26-03-2023 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

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One Thousand and One Defeats: An Anthropology of the Vanquished

Condition humaine / Conditions politiques. Revue internationale d¿'anthropologie du politique . 4. 20-09-2022. https://revues.mshparisnord.fr/chcp/index.php?id=817 . Published

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Living through Defeat: New Anthropological Insights on the Vanquished

Mantovan, Giacomo; Baussant Michèle, Condition humaine / Conditions politiques. Revue internationale d¿'anthropologie du politique . 4. 2022. https://revues.mshparisnord.fr/chcp/index.php?id=828 . Published

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Requiem for a sacrifice: Mourning narratives of the Tamil Tigers’ defeat

Mantovan, Giacomo, Condition humaine / Conditions politiques. Revue internationale d¿'anthropologie du politique. 4. 2022. https://revues.mshparisnord.fr/chcp/index.php?id=831 . Published

Journal article

A ‘tactical’ use of collective history: the construction and certification of truth in life accounts for Sri Lankan Tamil asylum application in France

Mantovan, Giacomo, Contemporary South Asia. 221 - 237. 2. 26. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2017.1346585 . 10.1080/09584935.2017.1346585 . Published

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