{"id":17557,"date":"2024-12-19T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:29:45","slug":"the-connectivitea-of-britain-and-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=17557","title":{"rendered":"The Connectivitea Of Britain And Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-17567\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-17567 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default-base\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Connectivitea\" data-height=\"766\" data-width=\"1135\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_17567\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_17567\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-17591 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2024-12-19 15:36:11\" 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is-style-outline is-style-outline--4\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?tag=tea\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">TEA BAGS<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline is-style-outline--5\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?tag=origin-sri-lanka\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">GROWN IN SRI LANKA<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline is-style-outline--6\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?tag=destination-uk\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">SOLD IN 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is-style-outline is-style-outline--20\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?tag=place-things-carefully\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">PLACE THINGS CAREFULLY<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-outline is-style-outline--21\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?tag=END-HAPPY\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">END HAPPY<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f6f0ec\">&#8220;<strong>The Connectivi<em>tea<\/em> Of Britain And Sri Lanka<\/strong>&#8220;<br>A dissertation by Sarah Wrathmell, submitted as part of their BA Geography degree at the University of Birmingham, UK.<br>Sample pages from its findings chapters are embedded in the slideshow above. Click them to read the dissertation.<br><br>Undergraduate Geography student Sarah Wrathmell has an ambitious idea for her dissertation research. She wants to travel to Sri Lanka to find the people who grow her morning cup of tea on a plantation in Kandy, Sri Lanka. She plans to &#8216;follow the thing&#8217; and to undertake some multisited ethnographic fieldwork along the supply chain of &#8216;Tillings&#8217; (a pseudonym) loose breakfast tea. She ends up writing about six places: the tea garden where the tea is grown, its collection spaces, its production factory (all in Sri Lanka), its blending factory, a specialist tea shop, and a tea garden where she shares a pot of tea with a group of friends (all in the UK). She talks to pickers, packers and drivers; visits factories and talks to people tasting, processing and packaging it to exacting standards; and finally drinks that tea with those drinkers. This is embodied, sensory work that she has to  &#8211; somehow &#8211; get on the page. What she wants to understand is what, and who, are the ingredients in her tea? And how are the lives of the people involved in making and drinking it interrelated? As a reader, your job is to follow her on her travels as she tries to make sense of this. Its assessors say it&#8217;s a fantastic piece of work. So, it&#8217;s submitted for a national dissertation prize. It wins this unanimously. We have a grainy .pdf copy that you can download and read. It&#8217;s important to show that not only are there high profile films, publications, and other forms of trade justice research and activism to pay attention to. Students have been doing this work too, for much smaller audiences, for years. What can this work look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dissertation reference: Sarah Wrathmell (2003) <em>The Connectivitea of Britain &amp; Sri Lanka<\/em>. BA Geography Dissertation: University of Birmingham, UK (followthethings.com\/the-connectivitea-of-Britain-and-sri-lanka.shtml last accessed &lt;insert date here&gt;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Page reference: Sarah Wrathmell (2024) <em>The Connectivitea of Britain &amp; Sri Lanka<\/em>. followthethings.com\/the-connectivitea-of-Britain-and-sri-lanka.shtml (last accessed &lt;insert date here&gt;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimated reading time: 60 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>5 comments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Discussion \/ Responses<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:7.99%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-duotone-purple-yellow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"border-radius:100px;object-fit:cover;width:43px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png 868w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-768x772.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92.01%\">\n<p>\u2026 highly original and ambitious \u2026 wonderful, evocative, detailed and imaginative \u2026 a great combination of social scientific rigour and creative writing \u2026 exemplary ethnographic stuff (Source: Anon 2003a, np)!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:7.99%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"border-radius:100px;object-fit:cover;width:43px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png 868w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-768x772.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92.01%\">\n<p>\u2026 probably a unique undergraduate study requiring as it does multi-site investigations that call for a high degree of commitment, energy and initiative \u2026 There is certainly lots to like in this study \u2013 it is attractively and engaging presented, it brings to life the various stages the commodity passes through, it is well bedded in the literature and so on (Source: Anon 2003a, np).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:7.99%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-duotone-blue-red\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"border-radius:100px;object-fit:cover;width:43px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png 868w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-768x772.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92.01%\">\n<p>There were 10 entries to the [Developing Areas Research Group undergraduate dissertation] prize in 2003, many of which were classified as \u2018outstanding\u2019, but the panel was unanimous in selecting Sarah\u2019s dissertation as the best. The dissertation was highly innovative and demonstrated a highly sophisticated approach to the theoretical questions covered and the methodology. This dissertation was beautifully presented and Sarah was commended for her highly mature approach to all aspects of the dissertation process (Anon 2003c, np).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Outcomes \/ Impacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:7.99%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-duotone-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"border-radius:100px;object-fit:cover;width:43px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png 868w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-768x772.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92.01%\">\n<p>[In the discussion recorded between the authors of Allsop et al 2010. Lecturer] Ian: I know you read Sarah Wrathmell\u2019s [dissertation], Didn\u2019t you [Helen]? That got you. Do you want to, can you talk a bit about that Helen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Student] Helen Clare: It\u2019s amazing, her dissertation. Um. Scared me quite a lot, actually, read it. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian: Do you want to explain just a little bit to everyone else, what it\u2019s about \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen: Yeah. She studied tea. The \u2018connectivitea\u2019 of tea \u2026 [Helen explains it and calls it \u2018absolutely amazing\u2019]. And part of me, when I read that, I was just scared that, \u2018could I do this?\u2019 Like, could I actually go somewhere and do this? Um..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian: What was \u2018amazing\u2019 about it? How would you describe it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen: Because it was so real. It was so, I could [pause] reading about these other people that she\u2019d gone and visited, um, just her writing style was amazing as well. Um..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian: What\u2019s amazing about it then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen: That it was really descriptive, that you could um imagine being there..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debbie: Did she take you on a journey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen: Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Student] Debbie Allsop: That sounds good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source: Allsop et al 2006, np).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:7.99%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-duotone-purple-green\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"border-radius:100px;object-fit:cover;width:43px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04.png 868w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/followthethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-17.49.04-768x772.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92.01%\">\n<p>The [undergraduate dissertation] I read [before I did my dissertation research &#8211; featured on our site <a href=\"https:\/\/follow-the-things.onyx-sites.io\/?p=2613\">here<\/a>] was about people in Sri Lanka and England whose lives were connected through the tea trade [Wrathmell 2003]. It was amazing. It was so real, reading about the people she had gone and visited. You could imagine being there. It scared me quite a lot, actually. I thought, \u2018could I do this?\u2019 \u2018Could I actually go somewhere and do this?\u2019 (Source: Clare in Allsop&nbsp;et al&nbsp;2010, p.7).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background has-normal-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#f8f2ee\">Page compiled by Ian Cook et al&nbsp;(last updated January 2024). Dissertation downloadable with permission of author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Allsop, D., Allen, H., Clare, H., Cook, I.J., Raxter, H., Upton, C.,&nbsp; &amp; Williams, A. (2006). <em>Unpublished transcript of a conversation between undergraduate geography students who had completed ethnographic dissertations and their supervisor Ian Cook<\/em> &#8211; <em>which was turned into Allsop et al (2010). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Allsop, D., Allen, H., Clare, H., Cook, I.J., Raxter, H., Upton, C.,&nbsp; &amp; Williams, A. (2010).&nbsp;Ethnography &amp; participant observation. In Gomez, B. &amp; Jones, JPJ III (<em>eds<\/em>)&nbsp;<em>Research Methods in Geography: a Critical Introduction,<\/em> Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (download draft at <a href=\"http:\/\/followthethings.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/allsop-et-al-ethnography.pdf\">http:\/\/followthethings.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/allsop-et-al-ethnography.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Anon (2003a) Internal examiner comments. on Wrathmell, S, (2003) <em>The connectivities of Britain and Sri Lanka<\/em>. University of Birmingham: BA Geography Dissertation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Anon (2003b) Internal examiner comments. on Wrathmell, S, (2003) <em>The connectivities of Britain and Sri Lanka<\/em>. University of Birmingham: BA Geography Dissertation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Anon (2003c) Assessor comments, for Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Developing Areas Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize for Wrathmell, S, (2003) <em>The connectivities of Britain and Sri Lanka<\/em>. 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