Amrute Encoding Race, Encoding Class

Indian IT Workers in Berlin
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7427-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amrute, Sareeta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1

Part I. Encoding Race

1. Imagining the Indian IT Body 29

2. The Postracial Office 54

3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office 86

Part II. Encoding Class

4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of the Computer in India 111

5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of Pleasure 137

6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial Labor 164

A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives 185

Notes 203

Bibliography 231

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.