TY - JOUR
AU - Hubbard, Phil
AB - 432 Progress in Human Geography 33(3) their oppressions, everyday living diffi culties about identities which are sutured (à la Stuart and stigmatization they encounter as FTZ Hall) into discursively constructed subject women workers. The ways in which the positions where ambivalences over nation, medical profession, ie, factory nurses, are used modernity and globalization play out. These to ‘monitor and discourage claims on factory raise questions about how we understand production time’ is an instance which points the geographies of labour and control. to the ways in which capitalist industrial pro- My only quibble with the text was the duction used medical centres to discipline omission of a historical analysis of Sri Lanka’s and control unnecessary worker disruptions labour movement and how this is likely to have (p. 116). She points to how their daily work- borne upon the very issues which Hewamanne life hardships limited their participation in underscores. Jayawardena’s (1972) analysis broader political activity, and because they shows how the country’s labour history was were construed by society as ‘loose and enmeshed in the (cultural) politics of gender, immoral women’ and the space within which (ethno-) nation and modernity, which is likely they sought empowerment was fractured to 
TI - Book review: Kindon, S., Pain, R. and Kesby, M., editors 2007: Participatory action research approaches and methods: connecting people, participation and place. London: Routledge. 288 pp. £75 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 40550 8
JO - Progress in Human Geography
DO - 10.1177/03091325090330031606
DA - 2009-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-kindon-s-pain-r-and-kesby-m-editors-2007-participatory-2QAPrxq71g
SP - 432
EP - 434
VL - 33
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -