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Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
Sarker
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Description for Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Sarker, Sonita; De, Esha Niyogi. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; JFC; JFFS; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822329923
SKU
V9780822329923
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About Sarker
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.
Reviews for Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
“This collection brings together an astonishingly wide variety of original research about the problem of globalization and the relationship of gender, time, and space to it. Focusing on ‘embodied subjects’ in diverse locations and shifting grounds allows the authors to excavate conditions—cultural, political, socioeconomic—under which the people they are writing about become what the editors call ‘trans-status subjects.’”—Antoinette Burton, author ... Read more