The Intimate Life of Dissent
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, and Jonathan Spencer
The Intimate Life of Dissent will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, history, political theory and sociology. Written in a clear and accessible style, it is also suitable for teaching introductory undergraduate courses on political anthropology.
Harini Amarasuriya is Senior Lecturer in Social Studies at
the Open University of Sri Lanka. Tobias Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Edinburgh. Sidharthan Maunaguru is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Edinburgh. Jonathan Spencer is Professor of South Asian Studies at the
University of Edinburgh.
1. Introduction: the intimate life of dissent
Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer
2. One is the biggest number. estrangement, intimacy, and totalitarianism in late Soviet Russia
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
3. Dissent with/out resistance? Secular and ultra-Orthodox Israeli approaches to ethical and political disagreement
Erica Weiss
4. Friendship behind bars: Kurdish dissident politics in Turkey’s prisons
Serra Hakyemez
5. Intimate commitments: friends, comrades and family in the life of one Sri Lankan activist
Harini Amarasuriya and Jonathan Spencer
6. Dissenting conscience: the Intimate politics of objection in Second World War Britain
Tobias Kelly
7. Friends with differences: ethics, rivalry and politics among Sri Lankan Tamil former political activists
Sidharthan Maunaguru
8. The Intimacy of details: a Tibetan diary of dissent
Carole McGranahan
9. Dissident writing and the Intimacy of the archive in authoritarian Indonesia
Doreen Lee
Index
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
224 Pages
Copyright: © 2020
ISBN: 9781787357785
Publication: September 01, 2020
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