Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka - Couverture souple

Hewamanne, Sandya

 
9780812221121: Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0812221125 ISBN 13 : 9780812221121
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandya Hewamanne teaches anthropology at Wake Forest University.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812221125
ISBN 13 
9780812221121
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780812240450: Stitching Identitites in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

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ISBN 10 :  0812240456 ISBN 13 :  9780812240450
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
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