Tom Widger
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
I obtained my PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics in 2009, and have since held research fellowships at Brunel, Sussex, and Durham, I am currently a Visiting Fellow at Brunel and the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Research Interest
Anthropology & chemistry, Suicide, self-harm, ethnopsychiatry, Cognition, cultural transmission, social learning, Charity, philanthropy, CSR, development, Religion, nationalism, politics, Pesticides, agrochemicals, and their human and environmental impacts, Chemical body burden, biomonitoring, medical and eco toxicology, Purity/danger; pollution/risk, Global health, Sri Lanka & South Asia.
Publications
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Widger, Tom (2017). Anti-Hesitation. Anthropology of this Century (18).
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Widger, Tom (2017). Accumulation through nationalism: the politics of profit in “neoliberal†Sri Lanka. Polity 7(2): 31-37.
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Osella, F. & Widger, T. (2017). ‘You can give even if you only have ten rupees!’ Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme. Modern Asian Studies
