Dr Sandya Hewamanne

Political Economy Fellow 2020-21

Rethinking ‘Grassroots’ Economic Justice: Measured Intervention, Feminist Political Economy Approaches and Sri Lanka’s Former Global Workers

Focusing on Sri Lanka’s former global factory workers who are now subcontracting for larger FTZ factories, and their robust subversions within and against global capitalist production networks, this research seeks to investigate how a national association of village subcontractors may be developing into a meaningful economic justice movement.

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Sandya Hewamanne is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Essex, and the Director of IMPACT-Global Work. She is the author of Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008); Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers: (Un)Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles, Routledge (2016); and Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Contentment, University of Pennsylvania Press (2020).

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