Malathi de Alwis
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Dr. Malathi (Mala) de Alwis is a Sri Lankan feminist researcher and scholar at the New School for Social Research. She is currently coordinating the ICES project "Gendering Peace Movements in South Asia"
De Alwis earned her Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where she was a founding member of the Women Against War Coalition.
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[edit] Research
De Alwis describes her research interests in the following manner: "Much of my early work focused on gender, nationalism, militarism and resistance culminating in my dissertation research on the conditions of possibility of motherhood in political protest in Sri Lanka. I have extended my concern with these issues in two slightly different trajectories at present: (1) re-thinking feminist peace activism in Sri Lanka, especially how the category of the 'political' is constituted, mobilized and re-iterated and (2) interrogating the categories of suffering and sentiment — initially explored in conjunction with the category of motherhood — within the broader context of humanitarian aid in times of conflict and the more recent tsunami which devastated vast swathes of the coast of Sri Lanka."
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[edit] Selected publications
Casting Pearls: The Women's Franchise Movement in Sri Lanka. With Kumari Jayawardena. Colombo: Social Scientists' Association, 2001.
"Capacity building, accountability and humanitarianism in Sri Lanka," with Jennifer Hyndman, in Pravada, Vol 7 (2), 2001: 7-10 (republished from Forced Migration Review 8).
"Ambivalent Maternalisms: Cursing as Public Protest in Sri Lanka" in The Aftermath: Women in Post-war Reconstruction, eds. Meredeth Turshen, Sheila Meintjes & Anu Pillay. London: Zed Press, 2001.
"The 'Purity' of Displacement and the Re-territorialization of Longing : Muslim Women Refugees in North-Western Sri Lanka", in Sites of Violence: Feminist Politics in Conflict Zones, eds.Wenona Giles & Jennifer Hyndman. Berkeley: University of California Press (in press).
