Experimental Times
Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2024
328 pages
978-0-520-39278-6 (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. 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.
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Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics and Associate Director of GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh.
Content
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
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
