Experimental Times

Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39277-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Hemangini

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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