Intimate Evictability: Urban Displacement, Familial Violence, and Women’s Claim to Home in Urban Sri Lanka

NIAS
Nature of the Event
NIAS Urban Lecture Series
Speaker
 Dr Asha L Abeyasekera
Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Venue
Virtual
Event date
8 August, 1530 hrs
Other details

About the Speaker: Asha L. Abeyasekera is an International Fellow of Urban Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She served as a senior lecturer – Gender and Women’s Studies - at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo (2012-2021). She obtained her PhD in International Development and Social Anthropology from the University of Bath.  Her research interests are women’s care work and the gendered labour of homemaking; ethical self-making; and cross-cultural expressions of emotions and wellbeing.  She is the author of Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka (2021, Rutgers).

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