Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tea and SolidarityCondition: NewSubtitle: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri LankaISBN-10: 0295745673EAN: 9780295745671ISBN: 9780295745671Publisher: University of Washington PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/17/2019Description: Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry’s economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 2008 and 2017, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors.In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. This vivid and engaging ethnography sheds light on an otherwise marginalized and often invisible minority whose labor and collective heritage of dispossession as “coolies” in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka’s global recognition, economic growth, and history as a postcolonial nation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 408gAuthor: Mythri JegathesanContributor: Piya Chatterjee (Series edited by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Decolonizing FeminismsTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, Technology & Engineering, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Tea and Solidarity
Title: Tea and Solidarity
Subtitle: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
ISBN-10: 0295745673
EAN: 9780295745671
ISBN: 9780295745671
Release Date: 06/17/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Piya Chatterjee (Series edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Tea and Solidarity : Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Asia / Southeast Asia, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, Women in Business, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Mythri Jegathesan
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
