Dr Jagath Bandara Pathirage

Jagath Bandara Pathirage, completed his first degree in sociology at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and MSc in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in UK. He was a research consultant for the University of Sussex in UK from 2007-to 2008 and then a senior research fellow at MARGA institute in Sri Lanka from 2008- 2011. He holds a teaching position at Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo. He isĀ  also a Research Fellow At Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University

Research Interest

  • Anthropology of Hope
  • Body
  • Landscape
  • Migration
  • Transnationalism
  • Religion and Ritual
  • Subjectivity and Identity
  • Sexuality