About
Research Context
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).
