Hewamanne
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16407 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hewamanne |
| SOBRENOME | Hewamanne |
| ASSINATURA | HEWAMANNE |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5769-6980 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making marriage livable
This article examines how neoliberal discourses of autonomy, individual choice, self‐investment, and companionate marriage are taken up, reworked, and domesticated in the intimate lives of Sri Lankan women who previously worked in Export Processing Zones (EPZs). Drawing on long‐term ethnographic research conducted between 2000 and 2023 among former EPZ workers in rural villages, the article traces how ideas encountered through NGO workshops, popu…
Invisible bondage
Female workers who enter factory work in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones (FTZs) via contractors are not forced to join or remain in contractor labor pools. This paper, however, argues that such workers nevertheless remain unfree due to cultural and emotional bonds that restrict labor mobility. By analyzing how contracted workers' entry and mobility within work get shaped by a coalition of patriarchal agents-parents, contractors and factory managemen…
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
From global workers to local entrepreneurs
Working in Sri Lanka’s urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka’s rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community relations. The knowledges and networks that they develop while at the FTZ allow former workers to connect with global production networks as subcontractors, makin…
Surveillance by Another Name
The intensified global movement against human trafficking saw the UK Government pass the Modern Slavery Act in 2015. Article 54 of the act specifically requires British companies to eradicate forced labor within their global supply chains. This essay investigates how the Modern Slavery Act affects workers at the ground level, specifically in Sri Lanka. It highlights how the onus of cleaning up supply chains was outsourced to local factory manager…
Crafting social change
This article explores how former factory workers negotiate new identities in villages, as new brides, mothers and daughters-in-law, after 5–6 years of employment in an urban Free Trade Zone. I argue that their performances of self-discipline and disavowal of transgressive knowledges allow them to make use of the limited social, economic and political spaces available while gradually reshaping local understandings about the good daughter-in-law. F…
Sewing their way up the social ladder? Paths to social mobility and empowerment among Sri Lanka’s global factory workers
Studies on global assembly line workers showcase how gains women make are counteracted by physical, social and psychological problems stemming from long hours of working, low wages and the precarity of work. Few studies analyse these workers’ experiences after they terminate factory work. Using life histories collected over 12 years and in-depth interviews, this article highlights the different paths former workers pursue to achieve social mobili…
Respectable Gentlemen and Street-Savvy Men
In this article, I investigate how particular discourses surrounding class specific understandings of sexual behavior and female morality shape awareness and views of the disease and personal vulnerability. Although both groups belong to the working class, those employed by the transportation board consider themselves government servants and, therefore, "respectable gentlemen." Construction workers identify easily with their class position, recog…
Threading meaningful lives
This article investigates how women who have come to the United States as brides of South Asian professionals use threading, a hair removal method, as a home business to negotiate new challenges they face as newly immigrant women. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, the article focuses on how these young women combine their expected roles as wives and mothers in a new country with their own aspirations to win the respect of …
The Anxieties of Mobility
Book review
Negotiating sexual meanings
Utilizing extensive ethnographic research in Sri Lanka's Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ), this article analyzes women workers' engagement in sexual banter on city streets. It argues that these acts and the sexualized vocabulary associated with them are contextually negotiated and, by challenging the dominant mores of respectability, also empower its practitioners. The article further argues that by uncritically adopting Western notions of sexual…
Collaborative Scriptwriting
This discussion focuses on my struggles to merge anthropological theory and practice to most benefit the community and my discovery of collaborative scriptwriting for street theater as an effective strategy. I was fortunate to attend a graduate program that boasted a rich tradition of critical, reflexive, and engaged ethnography. While our mentors conveyed the absolute necessity of giving back to the communities and taking our scholarly work to b…
Working the Night Shift
Duty Bound
This article analyzes how the complex intersections of political economy of war and transnational production led to particular social dynamics between Sri Lanka's women Free Trade Zone workers and military personnel. It explores the new spaces of violence against factory workers that resulted from increased militarization and women's FTZ garment factory employment. The article shows how the militarizing process continued even during the peace pro…
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone
By 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.
Reforming Global Sweatshop Reform
City of Whores
The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Katunayake resulting from transnational production at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and related globalized sociocultural flows affected the lived experiences of citizens in this new urban space in varied ways. The vast majority of FTZ workers are rural to urban migrant women. Consequently, neighbors reinvented themselves as moral guardians of these new arrivals while many agents and institutions, includ…
Pornographic Voice
Performing 'Dis-respectability
This article describes and analyzes how female garment-factory workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones collectively express their difference from dominant classes and males and articulate their identities as a gendered group of migrant industrial workers by cultivating different tastes and by engaging in oppositional cultural practices. In the urban, modernized, and globalized areas of the FTZs, women develop unique tastes in the realms of music,…
If They Allow Us We Will Fight
Performing 'Dis-respectability
This article describes and analyzes how female garment-factory workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones collectively express their difference from dominant classes and males and articulate their identities as a gendered group of migrant industrial workers by cultivating different tastes and by engaging in oppositional cultural practices. In the urban, modernized, and globalized areas of the FTZs, women develop unique tastes in the realms of music,…
City of Whores
The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Katunayake resulting from transnational production at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and related globalized sociocultural flows affected the lived experiences of citizens in this new urban space in varied ways. The vast majority of FTZ workers are rural to urban migrant women. Consequently, neighbors reinvented themselves as moral guardians of these new arrivals while many agents and institutions, includ…
Negotiating sexual meanings
Utilizing extensive ethnographic research in Sri Lanka's Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ), this article analyzes women workers' engagement in sexual banter on city streets. It argues that these acts and the sexualized vocabulary associated with them are contextually negotiated and, by challenging the dominant mores of respectability, also empower its practitioners. The article further argues that by uncritically adopting Western notions of sexual…
Duty Bound
This article analyzes how the complex intersections of political economy of war and transnational production led to particular social dynamics between Sri Lanka's women Free Trade Zone workers and military personnel. It explores the new spaces of violence against factory workers that resulted from increased militarization and women's FTZ garment factory employment. The article shows how the militarizing process continued even during the peace pro…
Surveillance by Another Name
The intensified global movement against human trafficking saw the UK Government pass the Modern Slavery Act in 2015. Article 54 of the act specifically requires British companies to eradicate forced labor within their global supply chains. This essay investigates how the Modern Slavery Act affects workers at the ground level, specifically in Sri Lanka. It highlights how the onus of cleaning up supply chains was outsourced to local factory manager…
Sewing their way up the social ladder? Paths to social mobility and empowerment among Sri Lanka’s global factory workers
Studies on global assembly line workers showcase how gains women make are counteracted by physical, social and psychological problems stemming from long hours of working, low wages and the precarity of work. Few studies analyse these workers’ experiences after they terminate factory work. Using life histories collected over 12 years and in-depth interviews, this article highlights the different paths former workers pursue to achieve social mobili…
From global workers to local entrepreneurs
Working in Sri Lanka’s urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka’s rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community relations. The knowledges and networks that they develop while at the FTZ allow former workers to connect with global production networks as subcontractors, makin…
Pornographic Voice
Invisible bondage
Female workers who enter factory work in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones (FTZs) via contractors are not forced to join or remain in contractor labor pools. This paper, however, argues that such workers nevertheless remain unfree due to cultural and emotional bonds that restrict labor mobility. By analyzing how contracted workers' entry and mobility within work get shaped by a coalition of patriarchal agents-parents, contractors and factory managemen…
If They Allow Us We Will Fight
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
The Anxieties of Mobility
Book review
If They Allow Us We Will Fight
Performing 'Dis-respectability
This article describes and analyzes how female garment-factory workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones collectively express their difference from dominant classes and males and articulate their identities as a gendered group of migrant industrial workers by cultivating different tastes and by engaging in oppositional cultural practices. In the urban, modernized, and globalized areas of the FTZs, women develop unique tastes in the realms of music,…
Pornographic Voice
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone
By 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.
Reforming Global Sweatshop Reform
City of Whores
The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Katunayake resulting from transnational production at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and related globalized sociocultural flows affected the lived experiences of citizens in this new urban space in varied ways. The vast majority of FTZ workers are rural to urban migrant women. Consequently, neighbors reinvented themselves as moral guardians of these new arrivals while many agents and institutions, includ…
Duty Bound
This article analyzes how the complex intersections of political economy of war and transnational production led to particular social dynamics between Sri Lanka's women Free Trade Zone workers and military personnel. It explores the new spaces of violence against factory workers that resulted from increased militarization and women's FTZ garment factory employment. The article shows how the militarizing process continued even during the peace pro…
Collaborative Scriptwriting
This discussion focuses on my struggles to merge anthropological theory and practice to most benefit the community and my discovery of collaborative scriptwriting for street theater as an effective strategy. I was fortunate to attend a graduate program that boasted a rich tradition of critical, reflexive, and engaged ethnography. While our mentors conveyed the absolute necessity of giving back to the communities and taking our scholarly work to b…
Working the Night Shift
Threading meaningful lives
This article investigates how women who have come to the United States as brides of South Asian professionals use threading, a hair removal method, as a home business to negotiate new challenges they face as newly immigrant women. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, the article focuses on how these young women combine their expected roles as wives and mothers in a new country with their own aspirations to win the respect of …
The Anxieties of Mobility
Book review
Negotiating sexual meanings
Utilizing extensive ethnographic research in Sri Lanka's Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ), this article analyzes women workers' engagement in sexual banter on city streets. It argues that these acts and the sexualized vocabulary associated with them are contextually negotiated and, by challenging the dominant mores of respectability, also empower its practitioners. The article further argues that by uncritically adopting Western notions of sexual…
Respectable Gentlemen and Street-Savvy Men
In this article, I investigate how particular discourses surrounding class specific understandings of sexual behavior and female morality shape awareness and views of the disease and personal vulnerability. Although both groups belong to the working class, those employed by the transportation board consider themselves government servants and, therefore, "respectable gentlemen." Construction workers identify easily with their class position, recog…
Sewing their way up the social ladder? Paths to social mobility and empowerment among Sri Lanka’s global factory workers
Studies on global assembly line workers showcase how gains women make are counteracted by physical, social and psychological problems stemming from long hours of working, low wages and the precarity of work. Few studies analyse these workers’ experiences after they terminate factory work. Using life histories collected over 12 years and in-depth interviews, this article highlights the different paths former workers pursue to achieve social mobili…
Crafting social change
This article explores how former factory workers negotiate new identities in villages, as new brides, mothers and daughters-in-law, after 5–6 years of employment in an urban Free Trade Zone. I argue that their performances of self-discipline and disavowal of transgressive knowledges allow them to make use of the limited social, economic and political spaces available while gradually reshaping local understandings about the good daughter-in-law. F…
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
From global workers to local entrepreneurs
Working in Sri Lanka’s urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka’s rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community relations. The knowledges and networks that they develop while at the FTZ allow former workers to connect with global production networks as subcontractors, makin…
Surveillance by Another Name
The intensified global movement against human trafficking saw the UK Government pass the Modern Slavery Act in 2015. Article 54 of the act specifically requires British companies to eradicate forced labor within their global supply chains. This essay investigates how the Modern Slavery Act affects workers at the ground level, specifically in Sri Lanka. It highlights how the onus of cleaning up supply chains was outsourced to local factory manager…
Invisible bondage
Female workers who enter factory work in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones (FTZs) via contractors are not forced to join or remain in contractor labor pools. This paper, however, argues that such workers nevertheless remain unfree due to cultural and emotional bonds that restrict labor mobility. By analyzing how contracted workers' entry and mobility within work get shaped by a coalition of patriarchal agents-parents, contractors and factory managemen…
Making marriage livable
This article examines how neoliberal discourses of autonomy, individual choice, self‐investment, and companionate marriage are taken up, reworked, and domesticated in the intimate lives of Sri Lankan women who previously worked in Export Processing Zones (EPZs). Drawing on long‐term ethnographic research conducted between 2000 and 2023 among former EPZ workers in rural villages, the article traces how ideas encountered through NGO workshops, popu…
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sri lanka (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Socioeconomics (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras)