Sinthujan Varatharajah
Sinthujan Varatharajah (born in Jaffna) lives in Berlin as an independent researcher and essayist. They studied Political Geography and works on the subjects of statelessness, mobilities and geographies of power(lessness) with a particular focus on infrastructures and architectures. For several years, Varatharajah was also engaged with various human rights organisations in London and Berlin.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Wirklichkeit Books
forthcoming
An illuminating conversation that, underpinned by lived experience, traces the racist structures of the German discourse landscape and creates a new vocabulary for acts of solidarity.
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Wirklichkeit Books
A conversation between the political geographer Sinthujan Varatharajah and the artist Moshtari Hilal on gentrification, asylum policy and double standards of the German majority society. Both authors have become leading voices of a new generation on topics such as racism, having ceated a strong counterpublic through their social media in the last years.
