The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers: Fighters' Memories of War and Survival - Library Binding
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- Based on fifteen years of in-depth ethnography among the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris and a series of field investigations in Sri Lanka and London.
- Seeks to understand, on one hand, how a revolutionary organization attempts to produce its members; on the other, the impact of this self-making on the fighters' life trajectories, particularly on their ways of thinking, acting, and feeling.
Giacomo Mantovan holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), ISCTE-IUL, in Lisbon. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh, and a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies. His research focuses on political violence, militancy, and the experience and memory of civil war and exile among Sri Lankan Tamils, particularly former LTTE fighters. Dr Mantovan has published extensively on the narration of the self and the production of political subjectivities during war and migration, as well as on the social consequences of defeat and the commemoration of martyrs.
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