Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email

vlb9@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 57

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

By appointment

 

Research areas

I am an anthropologist working at the intersection of conflict and visual culture. My research is focused on resistance, ethno-nationalist conflict, and political violence in Sri Lanka, examining the local and global aftermaths of civil war through the making and moving of images.

My recent projects have explored the political work of photography, the transnational visual economies of war death, and the interlinked iconographies of justice and accountability.

I am a member of the PhotoDemos Collective and curate the Museum of Religious Freedom, Sri Lanka.

PhD supervision

• Xi Chen
• Ashley Bowes
• Christine Conlon

Selected publications

• Open access

  Citizens of photography: the camera and the political imagination

  Pinney, C. (ed.), Binaisa, N. (ed.), Buthpitiya, V. (ed.), Kalantzis, K. (ed.), Selejan, I. L. (ed.) & Young, S. (ed.), 15 Sept 2023, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 354 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  How to capture birds of freedom: picturing Tamil women at war

  Buthpitiya, V., 1 May 2023, In: Trans Asia Photography. 13, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Pala

  Buthpitiya, V. & Kumaragurunathan, T., 20 Aug 2023

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

• Open access

  “The truth is in the soil”: the political work of photography in Northern Sri Lanka

  Buthpitiya, V., 15 Sept 2023, Citizens of photography: the camera and the political imagination. Pinney, C., Binaisa, N., Buthpitiya, V., Kalantzis, K., Selejan, I. L. & Young, S. (eds.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, p. 63-110 48 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  Absence in technicolour: protesting enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka

  Buthpitiya, V., 15 Jun 2022, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 28, S1, p. 118-134 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Elsewheres and otherworlds in the wake of war

  Buthpitiya, V., Jan 2022, Language is Migrant, p. 158-163.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Future Photographs

  Buthpitiya, V., 27 Jun 2022, 32 p. PhotoDemos Photobook Series.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  In Sri Lanka, A Perpetrator State Demands Non-Violence

  Buthpitiya, V., 3 May 2022, Urban Violence Research Network.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Naveena camera

  Buthpitiya, V., 24 Oct 2022, In: Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia. 4, p. 56-73 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Picture Palaces

  Buthpitiya, V., 27 Jun 2022, PhotoDemos Photobook Series.

  Research output: Other contribution

 

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