Encoding Race, Encoding Class
Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Seiten
2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6117-6 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6117-6 (ISBN)
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies.
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.
Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1
Part I. Encoding Race
1. Imagining the Indian IT Body 29
2. The Postracial Office 54
3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office 86
Part II. Encoding Class
4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of the Computer in India 111
5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of Pleasure 137
6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial Labor 164
A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives 185
Notes 203
Bibliography 231
Index 253
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.07.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6117-5 / 0822361175 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6117-6 / 9780822361176 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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