Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka - Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment

Continuing her earlier work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Sandya Hewamanne here explores the ways in which these women negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their villages and highlights the complex effects of globalization and transnational production on communities in the Global South.

About the author

Sandya Hewamanne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is the author of Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un)Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post Colonial Society. Her Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Summary

Continuing her earlier work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Sandya Hewamanne here explores the ways in which these women negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their villages and highlights the complex effects of globalization and transnational production on communities in the Global South.

Product details

• Authors: Sandya Hewamanne
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780812252408
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5240-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology