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Author_Hemangini Gupta
Bangalore technology industry
caste
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colonial labor
company
entrepreneur
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ethnography
feminist analysis of technology
Indian startup economy
IT professional
labor
middle class
modernity
office culture
race
social relationships
software
Techno-capitalism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520392762
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
