Trans-Status Subjects

Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
Cover of the book Trans-Status Subjects by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera, Duke University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera ISBN: 9780822384236
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: November 29, 2002
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
ISBN: 9780822384236
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: November 29, 2002
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

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

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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

More books from Duke University Press

Cover of the book Making Men by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Into the Archive by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Fragments of a Golden Age by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book A Small World by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Left Legalism/Left Critique by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book In the Name of Elijah Muhammad by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Women's Cinema, World Cinema by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Hotel Trópico by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book China Urban by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book The Nation's Tortured Body by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Translating Empire by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
Cover of the book Theodor W. Adorno by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy