Shyamain Wickramasingha

Biographic Data

ID1473496
NAMEShyamain Wickramasingha
GIVEN NAMESShyamain
FAMILY NAMEWickramasingha
SIGNATUREWICKRAMASINGHA S
AFFILIATIONSCopenhagen Business School
ORCID0000-0001-8607-8973
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis

    Open AccessShyamain Wickramasingha, Adrian SmithARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2025References: 55

    In recent debates concerning labour governance in global value chains (GVCs), it has been convincingly argued that the combination of public and private governance is necessary to effectively tackle workplace labour standards. This paper contributes to this debate in two ways. First, the paper demonstrates that an effective marriage of public-private governance is conditional on periods of economic and political stability. At times of instability…

  • Constructing (Im)Perfect Geographical Knowledge

    Shyamain WickramasinghaARTICLEThe Professional Geographer2023

    Positionality has long been at the center of debate on qualitative research and ethnographic field work within and beyond geography. Highly reflective accounts of positionality usually examine the way a researcher’s origins, gender, sexuality, age, religion, race, dis/ability and the intersections of these different aspects influence research encounters, data generated, and narratives produced. In this article, I contribute to this growing debate…

  • Geographies of dissociation

    Open AccessShyamain WickramasinghaARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2023Cited by: 6References: 24

    In this article, I use the emerging concept of geographies of dissociation to examine fragmented labour regimes in global production networks (GPNs). The article takes informality in the Sri Lankan apparel industry and the application of ethical codes as a case example. Using qualitative research methods, I provide a critical analytical lens through which the concept of dissociation makes visible what has been obscured through much of the debate …

  • The Collective Working Body

    Open AccessShyamain Wickramasingha, G De NeveARTICLEGlobal Labour Journal2022

    This article contributes to debates on global apparel workers’ health and well-being through an examination of how Sri Lankan workers were affected and treated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on qualitative interviews in and around the Katunayake Export Processing Zone, the article takes the Sri Lankan apparel industry as a case study. It reconceptualises the “precarious working body” as a “collective body” in order to demonstrate how workers…

  • Multi-stakeholder initiatives through the lens of labour regimes

    Open AccessShyamain WickramasinghaARTICLEGeoforum2022Cited by: 3References: 16

    This paper develops the concept of labour regimes as an application to better understand multi-stakeholder initiatives that are established to govern labour in global production networks. The labour regimes approach connects both global production dynamics and territorialised economic, political, and social formations in understanding labour outcomes at the workplace. The labour regimes approach helps explicate the intersection of labour, capital…

  • Conceptualizing Labor Regimes in Global Production Networks

    Shyamain Wickramasingha, Neil M CoeARTICLEEconomic Geography2022Cited by: 6References: 45

    This article seeks to develop the concept of labor regimes as a tool for understanding the uneven labor outcomes of global production networks (GPNs). Existing work on labor regimes tends to give primacy to the control of labor, thereby analyzing labor regimes largely from a governance perspective. The agency of labor, however, is deeply embedded in the workings of labor regimes in GPNs, and remains somewhat undertheorized therein. In this articl…