Experimental times : startup capitalism and feminist futures in India / Hemangini Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gupta, Hemangini, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New business enterprises--India--Bangalore.

New business enterprises.

Businesswomen--India--Bangalore.

Businesswomen.

Capitalism--Social aspects--India--Bangalore.

Capitalism.

Feminism--India--Bangalore.

Feminism.

Technological innovations--India--Bangalore.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Labor as method : exploring the space-time of technocapitalism

Gendered publics : looking back from the startup city

Producing the entrepreneur : embodying and gendering value

The office : from entrepreneurial exuberance to embodied exhaustion

Testing the future : experiments in everyday life

Love in the office family : infrastructures of care

Conclusion : feminist itineraries for the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520392786

0520392787

OCLC:

1463769053