Experimental Times (eBook)

Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India

Dr. Hemangini Gupta (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520392786 (ISBN)

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Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the dreams of a Startup India knitted through office work, at networking meetings and urban festivals, and across sites of leisure in the city. Tracking techno-futures that involve automation and impending precarity, Hemangini Gupta details the everyday forms of experimentation, care, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in Indias current economy.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART ONE: STARTUP CAPITALISM
1. Labor as Method: Exploring the Space-Time of Techno-capitalism
2. Gendered Publics: Looking Back from the Startup City 
3. Producing the Entrepreneur: Embodying and Gendering Value 

PART TWO: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL EVERYDAY
4. The Office: From Entrepreneurial Exuberance to Embodied Exhaustion 
5. Love in the Office Family: Infrastructures of Care 
6. Testing the Future: Experiments in Everyday Life 
Conclusion: Feminist Itineraries for the Future 

Notes 
References 
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Bangalore technology industry • caste • Colonial Labor • Company • Entrepreneur • ethnography • feminist analysis of technology • Indian startup economy • IT professional • Labor • middle class • Modernity • office culture • Race • Social Relationships • Software • techno-capitalism
• ISBN-13: 9780520392786 / 9780520392786