Informationen zum Autor Mark Whitaker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of South Carolina, Aiken. He received his PhD from Princeton University. He is the author of Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka (Pluto, 2006), and has written widely on Sri Lanka. Klappentext Remarkable account of the life and impact of the activist, journalist and Tamil freedom-fighter Sivaram Dharmeratnam

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Mark Whitaker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of South Carolina, Aiken. He received his PhD from Princeton University. He is the author of Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka (Pluto, 2006), and has written widely on Sri Lanka.

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Remarkable account of the life and impact of the activist, journalist and Tamil freedom-fighter Sivaram Dharmeratnam

Inhalt
Three Prologues; 1. Introduction: Why an Intellectual biography of Sivaram Dharmeratnam?; 2. Learning Politics from Sivaram; 3. The Family Elephant; 4. Ananthan and the Readers Circle; 5. From SR to Taraki - a 'serious unserious' journey; 6. From Taraki to TamilNet: Sivaram as journalist, military analyst and Internet pioneer; 7. States, Nations and Nationalism; 8. Return to Batticaloa; Bibliography; Index.