Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone write by Sandya Hewamanne. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang." Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality. By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.
Stitching Identities
Stitching Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stitching Identities write by Sandya Hewamanne. This book was released on 2002. Stitching Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Everyday Life in South Asia
Everyday Life in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Life in South Asia write by Diane P. Mines. This book was released on 2010. Everyday Life in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka write by Sandya Hewamanne. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sandya Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone analyzed how female factory workers in Sri Lanka's free trade zones challenged conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy. In Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka Hewamanne now follows many of these same women to explore the ways in which they negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their home villages. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over fifteen years, the book explores how the former free-trade-zone workers manipulate varied forms of capital—social, cultural, and monetary— to become local entrepreneurs and community leaders, while simultaneously initiating gradual changes in rural social hierarchies and gender norms. Free trade zones introduce Sri Lankan women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, Hewamanne contends. Her book illustrates how varied manifestations of neoliberal attitudes within local contexts result in new articulations of what it is to be an entrepreneur as well as a good woman. By focusing on how former workers decenter neoliberal market relations while using their entrepreneurial and civic activities to reimagine social life in ways more satisfying to them and their loved ones—what the author calls a politics of contentment—the book sheds light on new political possibilities in contexts where both reproduction of neoliberal economic relations and implementation of alternatives co-exist.
The Sri Lanka Reader
The Sri Lanka Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sri Lanka Reader write by John Holt. This book was released on 2011-04-13. The Sri Lanka Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.
