M Jegathesan
Biographic Data
| ID | 21329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Jegathesan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jegathesan |
| SIGNATURE | JEGATHESAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4920-7021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Farewell note from outgoing co-editor, Mythri Jegathesan
The 'Lost Parts of Us: Excavating Caste Complicity in India’s Help Economy
Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's “Regional Closets”
In 2015, Donna Haraway introduced the Plantationocene concept as an alternative to the Anthropocene in Environmental Humanities . Engaging Black feminist scholars who were thinking about the plantation before Haraway's Plantationocene, this article argues that a transregional centering of Black feminist scholarship within plantation studies is a mutually productive and ethical endeavor that affirms the rightful place of Black feminist scholars in…
Watching for Caste, Commensality, and Compatibility on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations
Body Writing
This article is a meditation on how the body fights to write about experiences of gendered risk and discomfort in anthropology. It details the sensorium of trauma and risk in fieldwork and how writing is central to processing traumas and but also curating future methodological directions. Responding to the demands placed on knowledge production in the discipline, anthropologists are often trained to seal up and bury these kinds of vulnerable writ…
Work for a Life
The Conversation
State-industrial Entanglements in Women's Reproductive Capacity and Labor in Sri Lanka
In 2013, the Sri Lankan Government issued the Family Background Report (FBR), a circular requiring women to obtain a medical certificate before migrating abroad for domestic work. In 2015, the FBR was revised to further restrict the labor choices of Hill Country Tamil women in the plantation sector. Feminist scholars and activists critique the FBR as an exceptionally restrictive policy that contradicts women’s rights. However, closer examination …
Disrupting Silicon Valley's Stories
Claiming Ūr: Home, Investment, and Decolonial Desires on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations
This article presents ethnographic evidence of the relationship among concepts of home, personhood, and labor on Sri Lanka's tea plantations to argue that Tamil-speaking plantation laborers cultivate practices of place-making and investment that directly challenge the coherence of the plantation as a social and industrial form. From 2008–2015, I conducted 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka among Tamil-speaking tea plantation residen…
Deficient realities: Expertise and uncertainty among tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka
Claiming Ūr: Home, Investment, and Decolonial Desires on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations
This article presents ethnographic evidence of the relationship among concepts of home, personhood, and labor on Sri Lanka's tea plantations to argue that Tamil-speaking plantation laborers cultivate practices of place-making and investment that directly challenge the coherence of the plantation as a social and industrial form. From 2008–2015, I conducted 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka among Tamil-speaking tea plantation residen…
Body Writing
This article is a meditation on how the body fights to write about experiences of gendered risk and discomfort in anthropology. It details the sensorium of trauma and risk in fieldwork and how writing is central to processing traumas and but also curating future methodological directions. Responding to the demands placed on knowledge production in the discipline, anthropologists are often trained to seal up and bury these kinds of vulnerable writ…
State-industrial Entanglements in Women's Reproductive Capacity and Labor in Sri Lanka
In 2013, the Sri Lankan Government issued the Family Background Report (FBR), a circular requiring women to obtain a medical certificate before migrating abroad for domestic work. In 2015, the FBR was revised to further restrict the labor choices of Hill Country Tamil women in the plantation sector. Feminist scholars and activists critique the FBR as an exceptionally restrictive policy that contradicts women’s rights. However, closer examination …
Disrupting Silicon Valley's Stories
Deficient realities: Expertise and uncertainty among tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka
Disrupting Silicon Valley's Stories
Claiming Ūr: Home, Investment, and Decolonial Desires on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations
This article presents ethnographic evidence of the relationship among concepts of home, personhood, and labor on Sri Lanka's tea plantations to argue that Tamil-speaking plantation laborers cultivate practices of place-making and investment that directly challenge the coherence of the plantation as a social and industrial form. From 2008–2015, I conducted 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka among Tamil-speaking tea plantation residen…
Work for a Life
The Conversation
State-industrial Entanglements in Women's Reproductive Capacity and Labor in Sri Lanka
In 2013, the Sri Lankan Government issued the Family Background Report (FBR), a circular requiring women to obtain a medical certificate before migrating abroad for domestic work. In 2015, the FBR was revised to further restrict the labor choices of Hill Country Tamil women in the plantation sector. Feminist scholars and activists critique the FBR as an exceptionally restrictive policy that contradicts women’s rights. However, closer examination …
Body Writing
This article is a meditation on how the body fights to write about experiences of gendered risk and discomfort in anthropology. It details the sensorium of trauma and risk in fieldwork and how writing is central to processing traumas and but also curating future methodological directions. Responding to the demands placed on knowledge production in the discipline, anthropologists are often trained to seal up and bury these kinds of vulnerable writ…
Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's “Regional Closets”
In 2015, Donna Haraway introduced the Plantationocene concept as an alternative to the Anthropocene in Environmental Humanities . Engaging Black feminist scholars who were thinking about the plantation before Haraway's Plantationocene, this article argues that a transregional centering of Black feminist scholarship within plantation studies is a mutually productive and ethical endeavor that affirms the rightful place of Black feminist scholars in…
Watching for Caste, Commensality, and Compatibility on Sri Lanka's Tea Plantations
Farewell note from outgoing co-editor, Mythri Jegathesan
The 'Lost Parts of Us: Excavating Caste Complicity in India’s Help Economy
Sociology (8 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Citation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works)