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COVID-19  and the lockdown of western countries unravelled global production chains,  resulting in hordes of workers in the Global South losing their livelihoods. Even  people engaged in traditionally locally-bound economic activities, such as  domestic work and sex work, found their livelihoods disappear. This volume  brings together case studies from India, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to  analyze global economic disruptions as they affected informal sector workers  who were already largely invisible within state development policies. 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In Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka Hewamanne now follows many of these same women to explore the ways in which they negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their home villages. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over fifteen years, the book explores how the former free-trade-zone workers manipulate varied forms of capital—social, cultural, and monetary— to become local entrepreneurs and community leaders, while simultaneously initiating gradual changes in rural social hierarchies and gender norms.  Free trade zones introduce Sri Lankan women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, Hewamanne contends. Her book illustrates how varied manifestations of neoliberal attitudes within local contexts result in new articulations of what it is to be an entrepreneur as well as a good woman. By focusing on how former workers decenter neoliberal market relations while using their entrepreneurial and civic activities to reimagine social life in ways more satisfying to them and their loved ones—what the author calls a politics of contentment—the book sheds light on new political possibilities in contexts where both reproduction of neoliberal economic relations and implementation of alternatives co-exist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007959695633,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007963070737,"sku":"NIN9780812252408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812252403.jpg?v=1752317348"},{"product_id":"political-economy-of-post-covid-life-and-work-in-the-global-south-pandemic-and-p-book-sandya-hewamanne-9783030932275","title":"The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity","description":"This edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown  on informal economies of varied countries in the Global South. 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