香港六合彩中特网

Mythri Jegathesan
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This talk is about an election campaign matchbook聽that a Tamil tea estate woman worker gave me聽ahead of Sri Lanka鈥檚 August 2015 Parliamentary聽Elections. I take this matchbook as an entry聽point to 鈥渨atch鈥� (Campt 2017) how a sensorium聽of plantation paternalisms nests in the materialities聽of Sri Lanka鈥檚 South-Central tea plantations. From聽generations of Indo-Lankan diplomatic encounters聽to ongoing struggles for labor justice, I consider聽how objects in Sri Lanka鈥檚 Hill Country such as this聽matchbook contain but also displace known histories聽of聽 workers鈥� struggles and demands for dignity. By presenting the paternalisms that nest in these聽objects, I ask how, if at all, watching them more聽closely might open us up to envisioning a politics of聽potentiality on Sri Lanka鈥檚 plantations.

Chinar Shah
Object: Gold Jewellery

Through a photographic practice, Shah engages in聽questions of ownership and divestment of gold聽jewellery at the intersections of gendered financial聽inclusion policies, patriarchal social norms of聽inheritance and female debt by looking at a few case聽studies from rural Tamil Nadu. Gold as an object聽chronicles memory of financial situations of a household聽in ownership and in loss. It is also an object聽of aspirations, desires and financial empowerment聽for women who bear a huge burden of debt聽without having any claim to other forms of assets.聽Through photographic explorations, Shah attempts聽to tell a complex tale of debt, micro credit and聽gold in rural India.

Part of the Objects Across Borders聽series, bringing聽together scholars聽and creative practitioners working in and on South聽Asia to reflect on the stories embedded in visual聽and material artefacts. This series is organised by聽Vindhya Buthpitiya聽(香港六合彩中特网) and聽Mallika Leuzinger聽(Princeton) and hosted聽by the聽香港六合彩中特网 Centre for the Study of South Asia聽and the Indian Ocean World, and聽听补苍诲听.