Mihirini Sirisena
Biographic Data
| ID | 642379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mihirini Sirisena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mihirini |
| FAMILY NAME | Sirisena |
| SIGNATURE | SIRISENA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0717-2636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”
Creative, nature-based activities, delivered with an ethic of care, present an opportunity to recognise and engage complex and, at times, opposing undercurrents inherent in social connections between individuals and social groups
The book’s a conversation starter’
Reading for Wellbeing (RfW) is a pilot initiative, aimed at improving mental health and well-being through supporting access and increasing opportunities to read for pleasure. RfW was implemented across six North-East local authorities in England and employed Community Reading Workers to support access to books and reading for targeted populations. The current study used realist methodology to understand context, potential mechanisms of action, a…
Making It Real
The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka
The Dissident Orientalist
This essay presents the story of U Dhammaloka's anti-missionary preaching tour of Ceylon in 1909, organized by Anagarika Dharmapala. Drawing on the versions of the tour as it is represented in Dhammaloka's sermons, Dharmapala's personal diaries, and Ceylonese media reflections of the views of Christians, competing Buddhist organizations and colonial authorities, I bring to light an instance of cross-border cooperation at the margins of the Buddhi…
Making Colombo Intimate
This paper discusses the significance of considering the relationship of urban space to affective intimacy. I consider the modes through which migrant students attending the University of Colombo experience Sri Lanka's capital city. Focusing on romantic relationships, I argue that the city presents a relational space that can be transformed through quotidian intimate experiences. Students inhabit and re-orient a potentially isolating and alienati…
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Making Colombo Intimate
This paper discusses the significance of considering the relationship of urban space to affective intimacy. I consider the modes through which migrant students attending the University of Colombo experience Sri Lanka's capital city. Focusing on romantic relationships, I argue that the city presents a relational space that can be transformed through quotidian intimate experiences. Students inhabit and re-orient a potentially isolating and alienati…
The Dissident Orientalist
This essay presents the story of U Dhammaloka's anti-missionary preaching tour of Ceylon in 1909, organized by Anagarika Dharmapala. Drawing on the versions of the tour as it is represented in Dhammaloka's sermons, Dharmapala's personal diaries, and Ceylonese media reflections of the views of Christians, competing Buddhist organizations and colonial authorities, I bring to light an instance of cross-border cooperation at the margins of the Buddhi…
Making It Real
The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka
You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”
Creative, nature-based activities, delivered with an ethic of care, present an opportunity to recognise and engage complex and, at times, opposing undercurrents inherent in social connections between individuals and social groups
The book’s a conversation starter’
Reading for Wellbeing (RfW) is a pilot initiative, aimed at improving mental health and well-being through supporting access and increasing opportunities to read for pleasure. RfW was implemented across six North-East local authorities in England and employed Community Reading Workers to support access to books and reading for targeted populations. The current study used realist methodology to understand context, potential mechanisms of action, a…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works)