articles and book chapters

Jegathesan, Mythri. “Feasting on labor: Sri Lanka’s errata of nationalist fantasy in Hollywood film” [Manuscript in preparation].

Jegathesan, Mythri, “Vampire bats, white blood, and thirsty elephants: fabulating ethnonationalism on Sri Lanka’s plantations” [Manuscript in preparation].

Jegathesan, Mythri. “The plantation’s edge: haptic ecologies of labor in Temple of Doom and The Color Purple” [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.