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Suicide, Global health, Philanthropy, Development, South Asia, Pesticides, Agriculture

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Employment (4)

Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2018-07-01 to present | Associate Professor of Social Anthropology (Anthropology)
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Tom Widger

Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2017-09-01 to 2018-07-01 | Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology (Anthropology)
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Tom Widger

Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

2014-10-01 to 2017-09-01 | Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (Anthropology)
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Tom Widger

University of Sussex: Brighton, Brighton and Hove, GB

2011-12-12 to 2014-08-31 | ESRC-DfID Research Fellow (Department of Anthropology)
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Education and qualifications (1)

London School of Economics: London, GB

2004-10-01 to 2009-09-11 | PhD in Anthropology (Department of Anthropology)
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Tom Widger

Works (11)

Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
2023-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2023.310106
Contributors: Tom Widger
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Ambivalent Objects in Global Health: Editors’ Introduction

Journal of Material Culture
2018-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1359183518804841
Contributors: Andrew Russell; Tom Widger
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Suicides, poisons and the materially possible: The positive ambivalence of means restriction and critical–critical global health

Journal of Material Culture
2018-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1359183518799525
Contributors: Tom Widger
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Suicide in Sri Lanka

2014-11 | Book
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Tom Widger

Reading Sri Lanka's Suicide Rate

Mod. Asian Stud.
2014-05 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1017/s0026749x1200073x

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0026-749X
Contributors: TOM WIDGER
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Thiranagama, Sharika. In my mother's house: civil war in Sri Lanka. xvi, 296 pp., map, bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2011. £39.00 (cloth)

J R Anthropol Inst
2014-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/1467-9655.12087_5

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1359-0987
Contributors: Tom Widger
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Situating Suicide as an Anthropological Problem: Ethnographic Approaches to Understanding Self-Harm and Self-Inflicted Death

Cult Med Psychiatry
2012-03-07 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s11013-012-9255-1

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0165-005X
Contributors: James Staples; Tom Widger
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Suffering, Frustration, and Anger: Class, Gender and History in Sri Lankan Suicide Stories

Cult Med Psychiatry
2012-03-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s11013-012-9250-6

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0165-005X
Contributors: Tom Widger
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Suicide and the morality of kinship in Sri Lanka

Contributions to Indian Sociology
2012-02-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/006996671104600205

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0069-9667
Contributors: T. Widger
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Dance and the nation: performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka - By Susan A. Reed

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2011-05-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01698_18.x

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1359-0987
Contributors: TOM WIDGER
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Buddha in Sri Lanka: remembered yesterdays ��� By Swarna Wickremeratne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2009 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01589_29.x

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1359-0987
Contributors: Tom Widger
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