articles and book chapters

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Jegathesan, Mythri. “Mothering between the “peak points”: locating the plantations in Sri Lanka’s lexicon of matrifocality.” Under contract for Routledge Handbook on the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (Eds. Erica B. Williams and Svati Shah). Manuscript in preparation.

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2024. "Feminist pathways and political possibilities in Sri Lankan plantation studies." in Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka. Edited by Kanchana Ruwanpura and Amjad Mohammed-Saleem. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003300991-37/feminist-pathways-political-possibilities-sri-lankan-plantation-studies-mythri-jegathesan?context=ubx&refId=a3846b69-80d0-46e6-9709-249634eb975c

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2021. "Conversions, Fixing Faith, and Material Investments on Sri Lanka’s Tea Plantations." Multi-Religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestations. Eds. Mark Whitaker, S. Pathmanesan, and Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake. Routledge University Press.

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2021. “Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's “Regional Closets.” Feminist Anthropology, 2: 78-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12037

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2020 [2019]. "Visible grounds: organising unorganized women workers with the Working Women's Front." In Up-Country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka. Eds. Daniel Bass and B. Skanthakumar. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies: 105-135.

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2019. "State-industrial Entanglements in Women’s Reproductive Capacity and Labor in Sri Lanka".” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 20. http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5095 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2018. “Claiming ūr: home, investment, and decolonial desires on Sri Lanka's tea plantations.” Anthropological Quarterly 91(2): 635-670.

 

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2015. “Deficient realities: expertise and uncertainty among tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka.” Dialectical Anthropology 39: 255-272.

Jegathesan, Mythri. 2011. “Negotiating history and attending to the future: formations of solidarity and community among Malaiyaha Tamils in Sri Lanka,” in Tamil Communities and the Sri Lankan Conflict. 2011. Géographie et Cultures. Paris: L’Harmattan. 45-71.