Aneesh Neutral Accent

How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7571-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

A. Aneesh uses India's call centers as sites to study the consequences of successful global integration. Call center work requires neutralizing racial, ethnic, and national identities, which causes a disintegration of self where the performance of one's neutralized identity serves the system of global markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aneesh, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: One World, Diverse Itineraries 1
1. Glimpsing an Urban Future: Divergent Tracks of Gurgaon 13
2. Inside a Call Center: Otherworldly Passages 35
3. Neutral Accent 53
4. System Identities: Divergent Itineraries and Uses of Personality 77
5. Nightly Clashes: Diurnal Body, Nocturnal Labor, Neutral Markets 101
Epilogue: The Logic of Indifference 127
References 137
Index 151

Über Autor(innen)

A. Aneesh is Director of the Institute of World Affairs and Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the author of Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.