Dr Jayanthi Lingham

First Book Fellow

Dispossessing Connections: women's working lives in post-war Sri Lanka

There is much research on how the aftermaths of contemporary crises are exploited to deepen neoliberal political-economic relations. The post-war ‘moment’ can be understood as such an arena: an opportunity, through reconstruction, to intensify processes of what Marxist geographer David Harvey, building on Marx and Luxemburg, calls ‘accumulation by dispossession’. While the gendered dynamics of accumulation are relatively well-explored, there has been less analysis of the gendered modes of dispossession, especially in post-war transitions, where the population is living in the wake of wartime land dispossession. My book aims to do this, via a case study of post-war Sri Lanka.

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Areas of interest

Border Studies Politics of Care Sri Lanka Development Studies Political Economy Gender Violence Peace and Conflict Studies Social Reproduction

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Biography

Jayanthi Lingham is a Research Associate working in the team Care Trajectories and Constraints, with a focus on researching Borders and Care. Previously, Jayanthi was a research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (2019-22).

Jayanthi's PhD (SOAS Development Studies 2019) examined women’s working lives in the post-war context of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province. She has an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, also from SOAS, and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the Development Studies and Politics departments at SOAS, and on modules on global development at Goldsmiths.

Jayanthi’s research interests include feminist and critical historical approaches to the international political economy of development, gender regimes, and violence and conflict. She is especially interested in the ways that structural violence and dispossession connect to and manifest in the everyday; on care as part of social reproduction; and on research at the intersection of ‘crisis’ and ‘development’.

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24