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Shibanee Sivanayagam

Grant Type

Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Institutional Affiliation

New York, Graduate Center, City U. of

Grant number

Gr. 10729

Approve Date

April 15, 2024

Project Title

Sivanayagam, Shibanee (New York, Graduate Center, City U. of) "Palmyrah Politics: Rethinking Region and the Subaltern in Northern Sri Lanka"

Palmyrah trees are part of a differentiated geography in Sri Lanka, correlating with the spatialization of ethnicity in the island; the trees exist in regions where Sri Lankan Tamils, a minoritized ethnic community, have historically been concentrated. T