Suvendrini Perera Suvendrini Perera i(A22044 works by) (a.k.a. Suvendi Perera)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Sri Lankan
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Suvendi Perera has a B.A from the University of Sri Lanka, Kelaniya and a Ph.D from Columbia University, New York. She has taught in the English Departmentof the Bundoora Campus of Monash University. Her published work focuses on cultural and critical theory and includes work on Australian multiculturalism, Australian-Asian connections and Aboriginal writing, colonial discourse and first world feminisms.

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y separately published work icon Deathscapes : Mapping Race and Violence in Settler States Australia Canada : 2017- 17701960 2017 website

'With the ultimate aim of ending deaths in custody, the Deathscapes project maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres, working across the settler states of Australia,  the US and Canada, as well as the UK/EU as historical sites of origin for these settler colonial states.

'It presents new understandings of the practices and technologies, both global and domestic, that enable state violence against racialized groups in settler states. Within the violent frame of the settler colonial state, centred on Indigenous deaths as a  form of ongoing clearing of the land, the deaths of other racialized  bodies within the nation and at its borders–including Black, migrant and refugee deaths–reaffirm the assertion of settler sovereignty.

'To focus on Indigenous deaths and other racialized deaths is not to collapse the differences between racialized groups, or to ignore the presence of other racialized populations in these states, but to address some of the shared strategies, policies, practices and rationales of state violence deployed in the management of these separate categories.'

Source: Deathscapes.

2019 shortlisted CHASS Australia Prizes Prize for Distinctive Work
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