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Trans–Status Subjects – Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia de Sonita Sarker

Trans–Status Subjects – Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

Autor Sonita Sarker, Esha Niyogi De
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2002
A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta--"Trans-Status Subjects" examines how these and other South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization. While much work has focused on the changes wrought by globalization--describing how people maintain foundations or are permanently destabilized--this collection theorizes the complex ways individuals negotiate their identities and create alliances in the midst of both stability and instability, as what the editors call trans-status subjects. Using gender paradigms, historical time, and geographic space as driving analytic concerns, the essays gathered here consider the various ways South and Southeast Asians both perpetuate and resist various hierarchies despite unequal mobilities within economic, social, cultural, and political contexts. The contributors--including literary and film theorists, geographers, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists--show how the dominant colonial powers prefigured the ideologies of gender and sexuality that neocolonial nation-states have later refigured; investigate economic and artistic production; and explore labor, capital, and social change. The essays cover a range of locales--including Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Borneo, Indonesia, and the United States. In investigating issues of power, mobility, memory, and solidarity in recent eras of globalization, the contributors--scholars and activists from South Asia, Southeast Asia, England, Australia, Canada, and the United States--illuminate various facets of the new concept of trans-status subjects.
"Trans-Status Subjects" carves out a new area of inquiry at the intersection of feminisim and critical geography, as well as globalization, postcolonial, and cultural studies.
"Contributors. "Anannya Bhattacharjee, Esha Niyogi De, Karen Gaul, Ketu Katrak, Karen Leonard, Philippa Levine, Kathryn McMahon, Andrew McRae, Susan Morgan, Nihal Perera, Sonita Sarker, Jael Silliman, Sylvia Tiwon, Gisele Yasmeen
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822329923
ISBN-10: 0822329921
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 1 table
Dimensiuni: 150 x 233 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Introduction: Marking Times and Territories1: Figuring Genders in Colony and Nation: Native and ForeignDesigning Woman, Designing North Borneo Susan MorganThe Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution (British Burma, Hong Kong, Singapore) Philippa LevineFeminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Columbo Nihal PereraFailure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation Sylvia TiwonGender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh Kathryn McMahon<2>: Transporting Genders Between Village and City: Representations and ResistancesTraveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders Karen GaulNurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscapes GiseleYasmeenPlace and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village Andrew McRaeThe City Between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations Esha Niyogi3; Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social ChangeSouth Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured Karen LeonardDiasporic Belonging and Alienness: Selected Indian American Cultural Expression Ketu KatrakJewish Diaspora in Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community Jael SillimanUnruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa Sonita SarkerImmigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility Anannya BhattacharjeeContributor’s Addresses and E-Mails

Recenzii

“[T]heoretically rich . . . . [T]hese essays raise provocative questions for educational and theoretical inquiry into dominant historical narratives and the relationships between place, identity and custom. This volume also offers us fresh ways to think about the historical production of gender, race and class ideologies and the role of nostalgia in defining place and subjectivity.”—Clarissa Adamson, Anthropological Quarterly“Any book bringing a sophisticated array of feminist, poststructuralist and post-colonial theoretical approaches to the intellectually conservative field of Southeast Asian Studies has to be seen as a welcome arrival. Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De have done just this in a collection which employs the concept of ‘trans-status subjectivity’ to capture the diverse and contradictory experience of South and Southeast Asians in the face of globalization.”—Ashley Carruthers, Jourhnal of Southeast Asian Studies“The book covers an exceptional array of material. . . . Supported by rich ethnographic data, each essay is a fascinating read and is a good reminder of the complex diversity in conceptualizations of gender in globalizing South and Southeast Asia.”—Amanda Cahill, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology“[I]mpressive variety of contributions. . . . [T]he volume would be a useful addition to libraries on gender in contemporary South and Southeast Asia, as well as a rich resource for graduate teaching in both Asian Studies and Gender Studies.”—Deirdre McKay, Sojourn“[A]n important contribution. . . . Trans-Status Subjects brings together a pertinent, timely, and intellectually provocative set of discussions. . . . [R]emarkable.”—Srirupa Prasad, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle EastListed in Cultural Critique, Women’s Review of Books, Journal of Asian History, Feminist Academic Press column, Women’s Studies.

Notă biografică

Sonita Sarker is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.Esha Niyogi De teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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"This valuable anthology gathers together feminist perspectives on gender, postcolonial critique, and critiques of Western modernity, and the considerable work on global capitalism and transnationalism. The work is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, intervening in the discussions of women, colonial and neocolonial modernity, and globalization with respect to South Asian and Southeast Asian women and locales."--Lisa Lowe, author of "Immigrant Acts"

Descriere

Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories.