Amarnath Amarasingam
Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University , the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the University of Waterloo .
Career
Amarasingam studied 2007-2011 Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University and was 2013 in Lorne L. Dawson with a dissertation on activism of social movements for Ph.D. PhD. Since September 2011 he has been a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, and since January 2012 at the University of Waterloo. From May 2014 to May 2016 he conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) . He is a Senior Research Fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue , a Fellow in the Extremism Program of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and has been leading a study on Western foreign fighters at the University of Waterloo since January 2017.
Amarasingam is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has lectured at over 100 national and international conferences and for The New York Times , Politico , The Atlantic , VICE News , The Daily Beast , Foreign Affairs , The Huffington Post , Al Jazeera and "War on the Rocks" written. In 2016 he was involved in the TV documentary "ISIS: Rise of Terror".
As a field researcher , Amarasingam conducted hundreds of interviews in the Tamil diaspora of Sri Lanka for his dissertation on social movement activism, organizational dynamics and youth identity . In 2013 and 2014 more than 50 interviews with former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the former war zones of Sri Lanka were made. He also conducted field research in Somalia , Lebanon and Israel / Palestine . For his project on western foreign fighters, he spoke to dozens of injured fighters, refugees and activists of the Syrian revolution . He conducted numerous interviews through social media and personally with jihadists such as Rachid Kassim who are currently fighting in Syria and Iraq , as well as those closest to them.
His research interests lie in diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, surveillance , social movements, radicalization and terrorism , media studies and the sociology of religion.
Publications (selection)
- Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada . ( Dissertation ) University of Georgia Press 2015 ISBN 978-0-820-34812-4
- Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War . C. Hurst & Co. 2017 ISBN 978-1-849-04573-5
- The Stewart / Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News . McFarland & Company 2011 ISBN 978-0-786-45886-8
- Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal . Haymarket Books 2012 ISBN 978-1-608-46203-2
Literature reviews
- Publications indexed at academia.edu
- Publications on the academic literature search engine Google Scholar
- Literature by and about Amarnath Amarasingam in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Web links
- Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University
- Amarnath Amarasingam's profile on the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS)
- Amarnath Amarasingam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Team of the "Institute for Strategic Dialogue" in London
- ↑ Amarnath Amarasingam, Jacob Davey: What About the Terrorism of the Far Right? . In: New York Times . June 21, 2017
- ↑ Amarnath Amarasingam: What ISIS Fighters Think of Trump . In: Politico . 1st March 2017
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at The Atlantic
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at VICE News
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at The Daily Beast
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at Foreign Affairs
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at The Huffington Post
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at Al Jazeera
- ↑ Author profile Amarnath Amarasingam at War on the Rocks
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↑ ISIS: Rise of Terror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Reviews for ISIS: Rise of Terror at Rotten Tomatoes - ↑ Thomas Gibbons-Neff: Rachid Kassim, ISIS recruiter and failed rapper, targeted in US airstrike . In: The Washington Post . February 10, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amarasingam, Amarnath |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American extremism researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |