Amarnath Amarasingam
NationalityCanadian
Alma materWilfrid Laurier University
Known forDiaspora, media studies, radicalization and deradicalization, religion, social movements, societal response, Sri Lanka, Tamils
Scientific career
FieldsExtremism
Institutions
ThesisPain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada (2013)
Doctoral advisorLorne L. Dawson
Websitehttps://cchs.gwu.edu/amarnath-amarasingam

Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher.

Career

Amarasingam studied religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2011. Since September 2011 he teaches as a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, since January 2012 additionally at the University of Waterloo. 2013 he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on social movement activism, his doctoral advisor was Lorne L. Dawson. From May 2014 to May 2016, he conducted research with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. He is a senior research fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a fellow in the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security extremism program and since January 2017 directs a study on Western Foreign Fighters at the University of Waterloo.

Amarasingam has written for The New York Times,[1] Politico,[2] The Atlantic,[3] Vice News,[4] The Daily Beast,[5] Foreign Affairs,[6] The Huffington Post,[7] Al Jazeera[8] and War on the Rocks.[9] 2016 he participated in the TV-documentation ISIS: Rise of Terror.[10]

Books

  • Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada. (Thesis) 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. Brill Publishers 2010 ISBN 978-90-04-18557-9; Haymarket Books 2012 ISBN 978-1-608-46203-2

References

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