Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM)

Sowmya Maheswaran

sowmya.maheswaran@hu-berlin.de

 

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sowmya.maheswaran@hu-berlin.de

 

Profile

  
Sowmya Maheswaran is doing her doctorate at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin and is a Hans Böckler Foundation doctoral scholar. Her dissertation deals with the political subjectivation of dissidents and their cultures of resistance in contexts of violence at the intersection of global and political anthropology.

Postcolonial negotiations of racism, nationalism and migration in war and post-war situations form central lines of investigation. The ethnographic focus of her current research is on Tamil conflicts and struggles in Sri Lanka and related transnational diaspora movements.

 

Supervisors

 

  • Manuela Bojadžijev (Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Sidharthan Maunaguru (National University Singapore)

 

Research focus

 

  • Postcolonial violence
  • resistance movements
  • activism
  • critical migration studies

 

 

CV

 

  • 2014 - 2017: 1st Bachelor of Arts: Educational Science/Pedagogy
    Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015 -2019: 2nd Bachelor of Arts: Ethnology
    Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2018 - 2020: Master of Arts: Ethnology
    Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • since 2020: Freelance research and consulting (conflict analysis, political consulting)
  • since 04/2021: PhD at IfEE, HU Berlin
  • since 12/2021: PhD scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation

 

Selected Publications

 
Journalistic & semi-academic

 

 
In Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik:

  • 12/2021: “Sri Lanka: Militarisierung als Krisenpolitik”
  • 11/2019: “Sri Lanka: Nationalismus auf dem Vormarsch”
  • 01/2019: “Sri Lanka: Der groteske Putsch”

 

In Neues Deutschland:

  • 09/2021: „Sri Lanka: Land in desolater Lage. Deutschland schiebt Geflüchtete nach Sri Lanka ab“
  • 08/2020: „Nach der kolonialen Dynastie“
  • 07/2020: „Sri Lanka im Griff des Autoritarismus“

 

In Atlas of Migration (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)

  • 06/2019: Facts and figures about people on the move. “Motives. Reasons to Move” (with Dr. Ramona Lenz)

Academic 

 

In Peripherie. Politik Ökonomie Kultur:

  • 09/2019: “Rezension: Eva Gerharz, Nasir Uddin & Pradeep Chakkarath (Hg.): Indigeneity on the Move. Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept. New York, US-NY & Oxford: Berghahn Books 2018”

 

 
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