Description: Tea and Solidarity : Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka, Hardcover by Jegathesan, Mythri, ISBN 0295745657, ISBN-13 9780295745657, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 Lankas 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.
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Book Title: Tea and Solidarity : Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tea and Solidarity : Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Asia / Southeast Asia, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Women in Business, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Mythri Jegathesan
Item Width: 7.2 in
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms Ser.
Format: Hardcover
