Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta

The Future of Futurity

Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s Business Process Outsourcing industry, analyzing the relationship between their imaginings of the future and the current conditions of globalized racial capital.

Produktdetails

• The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031536
• ISBN-10: 1478031530
• Artikelnr.: 71882437

Autorenporträt

Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Disjunctive Temporalities, Discrepant Futures  1
1. Mobility, Emplacement, Translation  47
2. Shopping Malls as Infrastructures of Aspirations: Learning to Labor in
Spaces of Leisure  100
3. Intimacies at Work  137
4. The Missed Period: Disjunctive Temporalities, Embodiment, and the Work
of Capital  179
Conclusion. Potentiality and Future Tense  222
Notes  243
References Cited  267
Index