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072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a331.4
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHewamanne, Sandya
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRestitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka :
_bGender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment /
_cSandya Hewamanne.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aContemporary Ethnography
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tChapter 1. Global in the Villages: Politics of Contentment --
_tChapter 2. Pure Girls! Don’t Open the Door --
_tChapter 3. Industrious and Obedient Daughters- in- Law --
_tChapter 4. Superwomen and Lazy Lalies: Villages Adjusting to Successful Former Workers --
_tChapter 5. Sex in the Village: Subversive Sexualities Abandoned? --
_tChapter 6. The Strange, the Crazy, and the Stubborn --
_tChapter 7. I Do Not Want to Be Rich and Lonely: Politics of Contentment --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSandya 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aFree trade
_zSri Lanka.
650 0 _aNeoliberalism
_xSocial aspects
_zSri Lanka.
650 0 _aReturn migrants
_zSri Lanka.
650 0 _aSex role
_zSri Lanka.
650 0 _aWomen migrant labor
_zSri Lanka.
650 0 _aWomen
_xIdentity.
650 0 _aWomen
_zSri Lanka
_xEconomic conditions.
650 0 _aWomen
_zSri Lanka
_xSocial conditions.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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653 _aAnthropology.
653 _aFolklore.
653 _aLinguistics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297331
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297331
856 4 2 _3Cover
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