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3D things : devices, technologies, and women's organising in Sri Lanka

Title
3D things : devices, technologies, and women's organising in Sri Lanka / Shermal Wijewardene and Kumudini Samuel.
Author
Wijewardene, Shermal
Publication
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka ; Colombo, Sri Lanka : Suriya Women's Development Centre & International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Samuel, Kumudini
  • Suriya Women's Development Centre (Batticaloa, Sri Lanka)
  • International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
Description
160 pages; 22 cm
Summary
This study focues on devices and technologies that shape the organising around women's issues and women's rights in Sri Lanka. It follows six women's organisations, using interviews with activists to trace their gendered engagements with and perceptions of the 'things' they deploy in their work.
Alternative Title
ThreeD things
Subject
  • Women in development > Sri Lanka
  • Technology and women > Sri Lanka
  • Women's rights > Sri Lanka
  • Women > Sri Lanka > Economic conditions
  • Technology and women
  • Women > Economic conditions
  • Women in development
  • Women's rights
  • Sri Lanka
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160).
Contents
1. Technological tropes 1: The activist's body and its capacities -- 2. Technological tropes 2: Money is the only technology -- 3. Technology is not reserved for men -- 4. The photographic record : the camera and documentation.
ISBN
  • 9789558695081
  • 9558695084
  • 9789555801713
  • 9555801711
LCCN
2016331085
OCLC
  • ocn956920336
  • SCSB-8968051
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library