Section: Research Student Profiles
Luke Heslop
- Name
- Luke Heslop
- Title
- Organisation
- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- laheslop@gmail.com
- Research Interests
- Sri Lanka; class; kinship; families; business; politics; politicking; merchants & traders; markets; work; protests; performance; vegetables.
- URL
- http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/research_students/heslop_luke
PhD Title
The Making of the Merchant Middle-Class: Work and Life in Central Sri Lanka. (working title)
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Anthropology and Development Studies. University of Sussex (2006 - 2009)
- Msc (res) Social Anthropology. University of Edinburgh (2010 - 2011)
Conference Papers and Presentations
(2010) Utrecht Round Table: 'Sri Lanka in Transition'. Utrecht, Holland.
(2010) 'Roads, Opportunity and Risk: Experiences from Colonial and Post Colonial Sri Lanka'. Presented at the Fourth European South Asia Phd Workshop. Heidelburg University, Germany.
(2011) 'The Vegetable Trade in Dambulla: An Ethnographic Look at Class, Capital, and Social Change in Central Sri Lanka'. University of Peradeniya (UoP), Sri Lanka.
(2013) 'On Sacred Ground: The Political Performance of Religious Responsibility'. British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, Leeds.
(2013) 'Performance and Paralysis: The Local Politics of Contesting Space in Sri Lanka'. Post War Sri Lanka: Politics, Economy, Peace-Building. London School of Economics (LSE).
Awards
2008 - Junior Research Associate Bursary (JRA): ‘Development Policy and Moral Discourse – The Case of Forestry in Sri Lanka’ - (with Dr Dinah Rajak)
2009 - ESRC (1+3) Open Competition Award: The morality of movement and change: An ethnographic study of development in Sri Lanka.
2013 - Outstanding Post-Graduate Essay. Awarded at the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, Leeds.
Supervisors
Professor Jonathan Spencer
Dr Lotte Hoek
This page was published on 1 May 2013