Experimental Times

Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India

Dr. Hemangini Gupta (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39277-9 (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 India's current economy.

Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics and Associate Director of GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	15 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-520-39277-9 / 0520392779
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39277-9 / 9780520392779
Zustand	Neuware