Amarnath Amarasingam
{{short description|Canadian extremism researcher|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| field = Extremism
| workplaces = {{bulleted list|Wilfrid Laurier University|University of Waterloo|Dalhousie University|Institute for Strategic Dialogue| |George Washington University}}
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| alma_mater = Wilfrid Laurier University
| thesis_title = Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
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| thesis_year = 2013
| doctoral_advisor = Lorne L. Dawson
| known_for = Diaspora, media studies, radicalization and deradicalization, religion, social movements, societal response, Sri Lanka, Tamils
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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,Amarnath Amarasingam, Jacob Davey (June 21, 2017). [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/finsbury-park-terrorist-attack-far-right.html "What About the Terrorism of the Far Right?"]. The New York Times Politico,Amarnath Amarasingam (March 1, 2017). [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/what-isis-fighters-think-of-trump-214843 "What ISIS Fighters Think of Trump"]. Politico. The Atlantic,[https://www.theatlantic.com/author/amarnath-amarasingam/ Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at The Atlantic Vice News,[https://news.vice.com/topic/amarnath-amarasingam Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at Vice News The Daily Beast,[https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/amarnath-amarasingam Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at The Daily Beast Foreign Affairs,[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/amarnath-amarasingam Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at Foreign Affairs The Huffington Post,[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/amarnath-amarasingam Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at The Huffington Post Al Jazeera[http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/amarnath-amarasingam-.html Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at Al Jazeera and War on the Rocks.[https://warontherocks.com/author/amarnath-amarasingam/ Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at War on the Rocks 2016 he participated in the TV-documentation ISIS: Rise of Terror.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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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External links
- [http://tsas.ca/tsas_affiliate/amarnath-amarasingam/ Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam] at Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS)
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Category:Academics and writers on far-right politics
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Category:Wilfrid Laurier University alumni