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Book SynopsisBy analyzing how Sri Lankan free trade zone factory workers claim political subjectivity and revealing a vibrant subaltern political universe where they can express alternative perspectives, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy.
Trade Review"A first-rate ethnography that will appeal not only to professional social scientists but to everyone concerned about the impact of global capitalism on the lives of ordinary people, especially women in the developing world." * Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University *
"Hewamanne succeeds in meeting her primary objective, which is to tell us the story of these women in a way that we can see and partially apprehend the complexity of their lives through her writing. Few ethnographies are as passionate, confident, intimate, and evocative as this one." *
American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Nation, Modernity, and Female Morality
Chapter 3. On the Shop Floor
Chapter 4. Loving Daughters and Politically Active Workers
Chapter 5. Politics of Everyday Life
Chapter 6. Performing Disrespectability
Chapter 7. FTZ Clothes and Home Clothes
Chapter 8. Made in Sri Lanka: Globalization and the Politics of Location
Epilogue: Cautious Voices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
