Professor Sandya Hewamanne
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Email
skhewa@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873828
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Location
5A.342, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Monday 1.30-2.30 p.m. Tuesday 1-2 p.m.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Gender and Sexuality
Economic and Feminist Anthropology (and Sociology)
Development
Human Rights
Medical Anthropology
South Asia
Conferences and presentations
Rethinking Feminist Political Economy: Global Assembly Lines, Transformative Politics and Economic justice in South Asia
Invited presentation, Inaugural lecture- Sustainable Development Lecture Series, Oslo, Norway, 26/3/2020
Ramayana, Gender Ideals and India's Daughters
Invited presentation, Forsyth Tech Community College, USA, Public talk, 25/11/2019
Dowries in Practice: Divergent Realities of Global Production in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India
Invited presentation, Public lecture, 31/10/2019
Conning Their Way To Justice: Marginalized Actors within Sri Lanka’s Global Production Responding to Neoliberal Development
Annual Conference on South Asia, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, United States, 18/10/2019
Global Garment Industry in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Lecture-Bangladesh Industrial Workers Federation., Dhaka, 3/8/2019
Corporate Social Responsibility policies and Modern Slavery Act.
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Public lecture, Melbourne, Australia, 7/5/2019
Archeology of Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka.
Invited presentation, Discussion panel- South Asia Section. Foreign Ministry of Norway., Oslo, Norway, 27/3/2019
IPSA-International Political Science Association World Congress
Invited presentation, Discussant- Panel on Beyond Borders: Intrastate and Interstate Socio-Political Movements in South Asia, IPSA-International Political Science Association World Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 25/7/2018
Global Assembly Lines and Human Rights.
Public lecture, Miri, Malaysia, 8/5/2018
Human Rights and Global Assembly Lines
Invited presentation, A lecture, Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia, 7/5/2018
Unutterable Desires- the book
Invited presentation, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting- invited round table to discuss my new ethnography, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., United States, 2/12/2017
Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post Colonial Society
American Anthropological Association Meetings 2017, Washington D.C., United States, 1/12/2017
Man-power Workers of Sri Lanka: Labor recruiters and Precarity.
Invited presentation, Public lecture, Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Durham, United States, 24/8/2017
From Global Factory Workers to Local Entrepreneurs: Former Global Factory Workers Manipulating Capital in Sri Lanka’s Villages.
Invited presentation, Moscow, Russia, 26/6/2017
Servants of Neoliberalism?: Former Global Factory Workers Manipulating Capital in Sri Lanka’s Villages. University of Kentucky. April 2017.
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Key note speaker-South Asia Week, Lexington, United States, 13/4/2017
Unutterable Desires: Subversive Sexualities and Undisciplined Daughters in Sri Lanka. , Sri Lanka. July 2016.
Invited presentation, Public lecture, International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13/7/2016
Don't Kill Our Dowries: Gender, Empowerment and Politics of Location
European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) Annual Meetings, European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) Annual Meetings, Warsaw, Poland, 22/6/2016
Migration, Stigma and Empowerment: Former Global Factory Workers Negotiating New Identities in Sri Lanka’s Villages.
Panel presentation, Migration and Gender, Barcelona, Spain, 15/7/2015
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Power and Agency in a Global World (SC201)
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Cities and Power (SC210)
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Ethnographic Research Methods (SC277)
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Dynamics of Gender, Work and Home (SC551)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 7/2/2024
Degree subject: Human Rights
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/1/2021
Publications
Journal articles (20)
Hewamanne, S., (2023). Invisible bondage: Mobility and compulsion within Sri Lanka’s global assembly line production. Ethnography. 24 (1), 85-105
Hewamanne, S., (2021). Emergency Contraceptives are our Saviors: Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers Negotiating Reproductive Health. Journal of International Women's Studies. 22 (1), 38-53
Hewamanne, S., (2021). Pandemic, Lockdown and Modern Slavery among Sri Lanka’s Global Assembly Line Workers.. Journal of International Women’s Studies. 22 (1), 54-69
Hewamanne, S., (2020). Surveillance by another Name: The Modern Slavery Act, Global Factory Workers, and Part-time Sex Work in Sri Lanka.. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 45 (3), 653-677
Hewamanne, S., (2020). From Global Workers to Local Entrepreneurs: Former Global Factory Workers in Rural Sri Lanka. Third World Quarterly. 41 (3), 547-564
Hewamanne, S. and Harnois, C., (2020). Categorical Variables without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey.. Gender Issues. 37 (4), 1-21
Hewamanne, S., (2019). Crafting Social Change: Former Global Factory Workers Negotiating Identities in Sri Lanka's Villages. Identities. 26 (2), 165-183
Hewamanne, S., (2018). Sewing their way up the social ladder? Paths to social mobility and empowerment among Sri Lanka’s global factory workers. Third World Quarterly. 39 (11), 2173-2187
Hewamanne, S., (2017). Respectable Gentlemen and Street-Savvy Men: HIV Vulnerability in Sri Lanka. Medical Anthropology. 36 (8), 744-757
Hewamanne, S., (2012). Threading meaningful lives: respectability, home businesses and identity negotiations among newly immigrant South Asian women. Identities. 19 (3), 320-338
Hewamanne, S., (2012). Negotiating sexual meanings: Global discourses, local practices, and Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ) factory workers. Ethnography. 13 (3), 352-374
Hewamanne, S., (2011). Collaborative Scriptwriting: Street Drama and Applied Anthropology among Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Workers. Practicing Anthropology. 33 (1), 23-27
Hewamanne, S., (2010). Suicide Narratives and In-Between Identities among Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers.. Ethnology. 49 (1), 1-22
Hewamanne, S., (2010). Gendering the Internally Displaced: Problem Bodies, Fluid Boundaries and Politics of Civil Society Participation in Sri Lanka. Journal of International Women's Studies. 11 (1), 157-172
Hewamanne, S., (2009). Duty Bound?: Militarization, Romances and New Spaces of Violence among Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone Garment Factory Workers.. Cultural Dynamics. 21 (2), 153-184
Hewamanne, S., (2008). City of Whores’: Nationalism, Development and Global Garment Workers of Sri Lanka.. Social Text. 95 (2), 35-59
Hewamanne, S., (2006). Pornographic Voice: Critical Feminist Practices among Sri Lanka's Female Garment Workers. Feminist Studies. 32 (1), 125-125
Hewamanne, S., (2006). Participation? My Blood and Flesh is being Sucked Dry”: Market Based Development and Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone Garment Factory Workers. Journal of Third World Studies. xxiii (1), 51-74
Hewamanne, S., (2003). Performing 'Dis-respectability': New Tastes, Cultural Practices, and Identity Performances by Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone Garment-Factory Workers. Cultural Dynamics. 15 (1), 71-101
Hewamanne, S., (1999). "If They Allow Us We Will Fight": Strains of Consciousness Among Women Workers in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone. Anthropology of Work Review. 19 (3), 8-13
Books (5)
Hewamanne, S. and Yadav, S., (2022). The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity. Palgrave. 978-3030932275
Hewamanne, S., (2021). The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity. Palgrave
Hewamanne, S., (2020). Re-Stitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Neoliberalism, Gender and Politics of Contentment.. University of Pennsylvania Press. 9780812252408
Hewamanne, S., (2016). Sri Lanka's global factory workers : (un)disciplined desires and sexual struggles in a post-colonial society. Routledge. 9780415819862
Hewamanne, S., (2011). Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka. University of Pennsylvania Press. 0812202252. 9780812202250
Book chapters (14)
Hewamanne, S. and Ryan-Flood, R., (2023). Feminism and race in academia. In: Difficult Conversations. Routledge. 39- 49
Hewamanne, S. and Ryan-Flood, R., (2023). Feminism and race in academia: An interview with Sandya Hewamanne. In: Difficult Conversations A Feminist Dialogue. Editors: Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. and James-Hawkins, L., . Taylor & Francis. 9780367542603
Hewamanne, S. and South, N., (2023). Women and the structural violence of ‘fast-fashion’ global production: victimization, poorcide and environmental harms. In: Gendering Green Criminology. Bristol University Press. 978-1529229639
Ryan-Flood, R. and Hewamanne, S., (2023). Feminism and Race in Academia: An interview with Sandya Hewamanne. In: Difficult Conversations: Feminist Dialogues. Editors: Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. and James-Hawkins, L., . Routledge
Hewamanne, S., (2022). Wither Labor and Human Rights?: Precarious work, and informal economies in the Post-COVID-19 Global South.. In: The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity.. Editors: Hewamanne, S. and Yadav, S., . Palgrave. 978-3030932275
Hewamanne, S., (2021). Global worker protests and tools of autocratization in Sri Lanka Rendering them silent. In: Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Editors: Widmalm, S., . Routledge. 310- 319. 9780367486747
Hewamanne, S., (2017). Health and Safety for Ten Hours Plus: Why Corporate Social Responsibility Policies are Not Successful as Envisioned.. In: Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World’s Garment Workers. Editors: De Neve, G. and Rebecca, P., . University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hewamanne, SK., (2017). Trouser Wearing Women: Changing Landscape of Fashion among Global Factory Workers and Contemporary Political Tensions in Sri Lanka. In: South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion. Editors: Begum, L. and Dasgupta, R., . I. B Tauris.
Hewamanne, S., (2016). A Buddha in the Making: Maniyo. In: Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. Editors: Samuels, J., McDaniel, JT. and Rowe, MM., . University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-5854-4
Hewamanne, S., (2015). Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka. In: Asian Muslim Women Globalization and Local Realities. Editors: Ahmed-Ghosh, H., . State University of New York Press. 1-4384-5775-8. 978-1-4384-5775-8
Hewamanne, S., (2013). The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka.. In: Everyday Occupations: Gender and Militarization in South Asia.. Editors: Visweswaran, K., . University of Pennsylvania Press: 60-84. 60- 84
Hewamanne, S., (2011). ’City of Whores’: Nationalism, Development and Global Garment Workers of Sri Lanka.. In: Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation.. Editors: Visweswaran, K., . London: Blackwell.. 289- 298
Hewamanne, S., (2009). The Color of Tears is the Same Everywhere: Inter-Ethnic Networking and Grassroots Organizing among Women Workers in Conflict-Ridden Sri Lanka.. In: Social Capital and Peace-Building: Creating and Resolving Conflict with Trust and Social Networks.. Editors: Cox, M., . London: Routledge. 95- 106
Hewamanne, S., (2006). Runaway Knowledge: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Practices among Sri Lanka’s Garment Factory Workers.. In: Trading Women’s Health and Rights?: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies.. Editors: Braunstein, E., Grown, C. and Malhotra., A., . London: Zed. 164- 188. 978-1842777756
Reports and Papers (1)
Hewamanne, S., (2008). HIV/AIDS Vulnerability Assessment: A Comparative Study in Sri Lanka.
Media (1)
Hewamanne, S., Sri Lanka’s global factory workers: Sewing their way up the social ladder. Image
Other (1)
Hewamanne, S., (2019).Modern Slavery Act is having unintended consequences for women’s freedom in Sri Lanka. The Conversation,The Conversation
Grants and funding
2024
Grassroots economic justice and transformational politics in Sri Lanka
Leverhulme Trust
2022
Impact Global Work
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2020
Rethinking 'Grassroots' Economic Justice: Measured Intervention, Feminist Political Economy Approaches and Sri Lanka's Former Global Workers
Independent Social Research Foundation
Measured Intervention for Economic Justice
University of Essex (GCRF)
2019
Bringing Global Factory Managers to the Table
University of Essex (GCRF)
Improving Occupational Health for Gender Justice and Poverty Reduction
University of Essex (GCRF)
2018
Labor and Human Rights in Post-War Sri Lanka
University of Essex
2016
Re-thinking Intimate Partner Violence: Soldiers and Former Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Factory Workers in Post Civil War Sri Lanka
The British Academy
Contact
Academic support hours:
Monday 1.30-2.30 p.m. Tuesday 1-2 p.m.
