Trans-Status Subjects

Sonita Sarker

Description

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

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• South Asia
• Cultural studies
• Globalization
• Southeast Asia
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 29 novembre 2002
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822384236
• Langue: English

Extrait

T R A N S - S TAT U S S U B J E C T S

T R A N S - S TAT U S S U B J E C T S

Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

Edited by Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De w

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Durham and London 2002

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T O B E H R O O Z A B S H A R A N D S U B H A S C H A N D R A S A R K E R A N D S U R A N J A N , F O R H I S C H E E R F U L E N C O U R A G E M E N T

C O N T E N T S w

Acknowledgmentsxi

Introduction: Marking Times and Territories Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De1

I F I G U R I N G G E N D E R S I N T H E C O L O N Y A N D N AT I O N : N AT I V E A N D F O R E I G N

Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo Susan Morgan31

The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution Philippa Levine51

Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo Nihal Perera67

Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation Sylvia Tiwon88

Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh Kathryn McMahon108

I I T R A N S P O R T I N G G E N D E R S B E T W E E N T H E V I L L A G E A N D C I T Y : R E P R E S E N TAT I O N S A N D R E S I S TA N C E S

Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making ofPahariGenders Karen K. Gaul129

Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscape Gisèle Yasmeen147

Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development Andrew McRae167

The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations Esha Niyogi De189

I I I G E N D E R I N G L O C A L - G L O B A L C I R C U I T S : L A B O R , C A P I TA L , A N D S U B J E C T S O F S O C I A L C H A N G E

South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured Karen Leonard213

Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions Ketu H. Katrak232

Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community Jael Silliman249

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Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa Sonita Sarker267

Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility Anannya Bhattacharjee289

Bibliography309

Contributors333

Index335

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