University
:
Wilfrid Laurier University
– Religion and Culture
Affiliate Type
:
Post-doctoral fellow - Junior Research Affiliate
Area(s) of Expertise
:
Diaspora
,
Media
,
Radicalization and Deradicalization
,
Religion
,
Resiliency
,
Social movements
,
Societal response
,
Sri Lanka
,
Sri Lankan Tamils
Location
:
Canada
,
London
,
Ontario
Email
:
amarnath0330@gmail.com
Website
:
http://wlu-ca.academia.edu/AmarnathAmarasingam
Library Entries (Click to View)
TSAS WP16-14: Talking to Foreign Fighters: Socio-Economic Push versus Existential Pull Factors
TSAS WP16-13: Trying to Talk to Terrorists: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Canada
Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond
Description
:
Amarnath Amarasingam is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University, and also teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
His research interests are in diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, surveillance, social movements, radicalization and terrorism, media studies, and the sociology of religion. He is the author/editor of several books, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has presented papers at over forty national and international conferences, and has contributed op-ed pieces to Al-Jazeera English, The Daily Beast, The Toronto Star, The Huffington Post and Groundviews.