{"title":"Lamia Karim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLamia Karim\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the complexities of global education, migration, and social change. Her works blend rigorous research with accessible narratives, illuminating the lived experiences behind educational policies and economic shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in critical perspectives on capitalism, mobility, and development will find her books thought-provoking and richly detailed. \u003cem\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies her sharp analysis of how education intersects with global economic transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"castoffs-of-capital-by-lamia-karim-9781517913366","title":"Castoffs of Capital","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESON PRIZE FROM THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh, anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses attention onto the lives of older women aged out of factory work, heretofore largely ignored, thereby introducing a new dimension to the understanding of a female-headed workforce that today numbers around four million in Bangladesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing a feminist labour studies lens, \u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds these women not only as workers but as mothers, wives, sisters, lovers, friends, and political agents. Focusing on relations among work, gender, and global capital's targeting of poor women to advance its market penetration, Karim shows how women navigate these spaces by adopting new subject formations. She locates these women's aspirations for the \"good life\" not only in material comforts but also in their longings for love and sexual fulfilment that help them momentarily forget the precarity of their existence under the shadow of capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough richly detailed ethnographic studies, this innovative and beautifully written book examines the making and unmaking of these women's wants and desires, loves and tribulations, hopes and despairs, and triumphs and struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470239088876,"sku":"9781517913366","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517913366-castoffs-of-capital.jpg?v=1775214435"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lamia-karim.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}