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:

xvii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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. It 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 technofutures that involve automation and impending precarity, this book details the everyday forms of experimentation, care, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in India's current economy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Labor as method : exploring the space-time of techno-capitalism

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 and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gupta, Hemangini, 1980- Experimental times

ISBN:

9780520392762

0520392760

9780520392779

0520392779

OCLC:

1451799624