Nira Wickramasinghe
Hoogleraar
- Naam
- Prof.dr. N.K. Wickramasinghe
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- +31 71 527 2982
- n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Nira Wickramasinghe is Hoogleraar Moderne Zuid-Aziatische Studies aan het Instituut voor Regiostudies.
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Nieuws
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Herdenkingsjaar afschaffing slavernij van start -
Zes NWO-beurzen voor FGW’ers: dit gaan de wetenschappers doen -
Nira Wickramasinghe ontvangt beurs voor onderzoek naar vergeten Nederlandse slavernij rond de Indische Oceaan -
Nira Wickramasinghe over protesten in Sri Lanka -
Leidse onderzoeksprojecten krijgen subsidie NWO Open Competitie -
Nira Wickramasinghe wint John F. Richards Prize
In de media
Promovendi
Hoogleraar
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS India en Tibet
- Henley D.E.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (red.) (2023), Monsoon Asia: a reader on South and Southeast Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2023), A country in Abeyance: Sri Lanka's Continuing Crisis, Current History 122(843): 131-136.
- Henley D.E.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K (2023), Monsoon Asia: a reader on South and Southeast Asia. Critical, Connected Histories nr. 4. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2022), Bespreking van: Pieris A. (2019), Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation: Routledge. Asian Studies Review 46(2): 379-381.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2021), Sri Lanka in 2020: return to Rajapaksa Regnum, Asian Survey 61(1): 211-216.
- Schrikker A.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (2020), Slavernij, slavenhandel en de VOC in Zuid-Azië. In: Brandon P., Jones G., Jouwe N., Rossum M. & Tosun M. (red.), De slavernij in oost en west. Het Amsterdam onderzoek. Amsterdam: spectrum. 172-181.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2020), Bespreking van: Zoltan Biedermann (2018), (Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugual, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Asian Studies 79(1): 250-252.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2020), Bespreking van: Biederman Z. (2018), (Dis)connected empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan diplomacy, and the making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Asian Studies 79(1): 250-252.
- Schrikker A.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (red.) (2020), Being a slave. Histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean . Leiden: LUP.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2020), Slave in a Palanquin: colonial servitude and resistance in Sri Lanka. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Schrikker A.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (2020), Introduction: enslaved in the Indian Ocean. In: Schrikker A.F. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (red.), Being a slave: Histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. Critical, Connected Histories. Leiden: LUP. 17-40.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2019), Bespreking van: Ronit Ricci (2016), Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Itinerario 43(1): 181-183.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. & Schrikker A.F. (2019), The ambivalence of freedom: slaves in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Journal of Asian Studies 78(3): 497-519.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2019), La fabrication de la stabilite oppressive et la resilience de la democratie au Sri Lanka. In: Dieckhoff Alain, Jaffrelot Christophe & Massicard Elise (red.), L' Enjeu mondial: Populismes au pouvoir. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po. 211-226.
- Carter M. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (2018), Forcing the archive: involuntary migrants ‘of Ceylon’ in the Indian Ocean World of the 18–19th centuries, South Asian History and Culture 9(2): 194-206.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2017), Citizens, Aryans and Indians in Colonial Lanka: Discourses on Belonging in the 1920s-1930s. In: Laffan M. (red.), Belonging and the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 139-157.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2017), Bespreking van: Perera S. (2016), WARZONE TOURISM IN SRI LANKA : Tales from Darker Places in Paradise. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishers. Pacific Affairs 90(4): 851-852.
- Bilgrami A. & Wickramasinghe N.K. (2016), Chapter 20, ‘Belonging’, in the final Report - International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP): https://comment.ipsp.org/chapter/chapter-20-belonging.
- Chakrabarty D., Wickramasinghe N.K. & et al (2016), Minor archives, meta-histories. GLASS Faculty Roundtable, Praticas da Historia, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (3): 93-124.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2015), Sri Lanka in 2014: Cracks in the Edifice, Asian Survey 55(1): 60-66.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2015), Colonial Governmentality and the political thinking through '1931' in the Crown colony of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Socio 05: 99-114.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2014), Metallic Modern. Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka . New York Oxford: Berghahn Publ.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2014), Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. A History. London and New York: C. Hurst, Oxford University Press.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2014), 'Sri Lanka in 2013:Post-war Oppressive Stability', Asian Survey 54(1): 199-205.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2013), Fashioning a Market: The Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Sri Lanka. In: Rodgers Daniel T., Raman Bhavani & Reimitz Helmut (red.), Cultures in Motion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2013), Producing the Present. History as Heritage in Post-War Patriotic Sri Lanka, Economic and Political Weekly XLVIII(No 43): 91-100.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2012) Review. Bespreking van: (2011), Biyanwila, Sumithra Janaka: The Labour Movement in the Global South. Trade Unions in Sri Lanka. nr. 2012-1-072. London: Routledge. Geschichte.Transnational .
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2012), 'Democracy and entitlements in Sri Lanka: The 1970s crisis over university admission', South Asian History and Culture 3(1): 81-96.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2011), Authenticity and hybridity: Scrutiinsing heritage, IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) 57: 20-21.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2011), 'Colonial governmentality: Critical notes from a perpsective of South Asian Studies', Comparativ. Zeitschrift fur Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforshung 21(1): 32-40.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2010), Sri Lanka's Independence: Shadows over a Colonial Graft. In: Brass P.R. (red.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Abingdon UK: Routledge. 41-51.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. & Haniffa F. (2010), Sri Lanka. In: Dhamija J. (red.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Vol 4. South and Southeast Asia. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers. 95-101.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (17 september 2010), Rajapaksa Makes a Move. Wall Street Journal Asia: 9-9.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2010), Colonial Influence on dress in Sri Lanka. In: Dhamija J. (red.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Vol 4. South Asia and Southeast Asia. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers. 249-254.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2010), Sri Lanka. The Triumph of vulgar patriotism, Current History 109(726): 158-162.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2009), Many little revolts or one Rebellion? The Maritime provinces of Ceylon/Sri Lanka between 1796 and 1800’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 32(2): 170-188.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2009), After the War: A New Patriotism in Sri Lanka, Journal of Asian Studies 68(4): 1045-1054.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2009), Sri Lanka in 2008. Waging War for, Asian Survey 49(1): 59-65.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2009), The Imagined Spaces of Empire’. In: Jazeel T. & Brun C. (red.), Spatialising Politics. Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, Singapore: Sage. 24-43.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2008), Sri Lanka in 2007. Military Successes, but at Humanitarian and Economic Costs, Asian Survey 48(1): 191-197.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2007), Sri Lanka’s Conflict: Culture and Lineages of the Past, Journal of International Affairs 60(1): 107-124.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2006), Bespreking van: Banerjee M. & Miller D. (2003), The Sari. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12: 710-711.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2006), L’Invention du Vetement National au Sri Lanka. Habiller le corps colonise. Paris: Karthala presse.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2006), Sri Lanka in the modern age. A history of contested identities. London and Honolulu: C. Hurst and Hawaii University Press.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2006), La Petition Coloniale. Objet de controle, objet de dissidence, Identity, Culture, Politics 7(1-2): 82-97.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2006), Unthinking the Terrorism-Globalisation Nexus’. In: Ahmed I. (red.), Understanding Terrorism in South Asia. Beyond Statist Discourses. New Delhi: Manohar. 371-411.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2005), The Idea of Civil Society in the South. Imaginings, Transplants, Designs’, Science and Society 69(1): 458-486.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2005), University Space and Value : Three Essays. Colombo: International Center for Ethnic Studies.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2003), Dressing the Colonised Body: Politics, Clothing and Identity in Colonial Sri Lanka. New Delhi: Orient Longman.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2003), The Return of Keppetipola’s Cranium: The Construction of Nationalism in Sri Lanka. In: Pandey G. & Geschiere P. (red.), The Forging of Nationhood. The contest over ethnicity, citizenship and history. New Delhi: Manohar and SEPHIS. 129-156.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2002), ‘From Hybridity to Authenticity: the Biography of a few Kandyan Things’. In: Silva N. (red.), The Hybrid Island. Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka. London and Colombo: Zed and SSA. 71-92.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2001), History Writing: New Trends and Methodologies. Colombo: International Center for Ethnic Studies.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2001), Civil Society in Sri Lanka. New Circles of Power. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publishers.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (2000), ‘Migration and Migrant Communities in early twentieth century Sinhala Nationalism. In: Bates C. (red.), Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora,. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 153-184.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (1997), 'The Return of Keppetipola's Cranium. Authenticity in a New Nation', Economic and Political Weekly, Economic and Political Weekly 32(30): 85-92.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (1996), Bespreking van: Van der Veer P. (1994), Religious Nationalism. Hindus and Muslims nr. 3. Berkeley: Caliifornia University Press. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 27: 78-79.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (1995), Ethnic Politics in Colonial Sri Lanka 1927-1947. New Delhi: Vikas Publishers.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (1995), History outside the Nation', Economic and Political Weekly 30(26): 1570-1572.
- Wickramasinghe N.K. (1995) Discourse of Difference. Bespreking van: Metcalf T.R (1994), Ideologies of the Raj, The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. III, 4,. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. Economic and Political Weekly : 2864-2865.