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      Alex & I: Against Indifference

      Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
      UTS ePRESS
      Photography, Urbanism, Experimental Ethnography

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          This text and photo essay concerns a series of portraits made with a community of Tamil refugees living in Bangkok who refer to themselves as ‘the Bachelors.’ The project was initiated by refugee and one-time media figure, Sanjeev ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah who hoped his peers would tell their own stories to an ‘international community.’ With reference to Judith Butler’s Frames of War (2009), I have sought to ‘discursively frame’ the images by considering the discrimination these young single men encounter living in the margins of this South Asian metropolis, awaiting the outcomes of their re-settlement applications.  

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          Australia URI : http://www.sivanesan.net
          Journal
          Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
          UTS ePRESS
          23 March 2016
          : 27-39
          Article
          10.5130/ccs.v8i1.4715
          b6b8f2fe-5363-4d3c-b18d-b0f255708a1d

          This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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          Social & Behavioral Sciences,General social science
          Photography,Urbanism,Experimental Ethnography

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