The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Purnima Mankekar, Akhil GuptaSeries:Lewis Henry Morgan LecturesPublish date:4/1/2025Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031536ISBN-10:1478031530UPC:9781478031536Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Asian Studies, Social TheorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCT6F9MW85
The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity--an affective-temporal potentiality and mode of being that emphasizes the unfolding of time--enables BPO workers to strive...
Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031536ISBN-10:1478031530UPC:9781478031536Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Asian Studies, Social TheorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCT6F9MW85
Purnima Mankekar is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, and Film, TV, and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. Akhil Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Publisher: Duke University Press
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