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The Future of Futurity

- Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
Af: Akhil Gupta, Purnima Mankekar Engelsk Paperback

The Future of Futurity

- Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
Af: Akhil Gupta, Purnima Mankekar Engelsk Paperback
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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 for hopeful futures despite their experiences of growing inequality, volatility, and violence. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with managers, owners, and workers of BPO companies, the authors explore how workers find pathways for navigating a globalized world and for imagining their futures in it. They point to the heterogeneous lives, yearnings, and anxieties of BPO workers, foregrounding the disjunctions and conjunctions between labor, corporeality, intimacy, family life, and mobility. Mankekar and Gupta show how workers’ daily lives and imaginings of the future point to the relationships between futurity, capital, and technology as well as futurity’s imbrications with contemporary racial capitalism. In so doing, the authors insist on the transformative potential of futurity even in conditions of extreme precarity.
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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 for hopeful futures despite their experiences of growing inequality, volatility, and violence. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with managers, owners, and workers of BPO companies, the authors explore how workers find pathways for navigating a globalized world and for imagining their futures in it. They point to the heterogeneous lives, yearnings, and anxieties of BPO workers, foregrounding the disjunctions and conjunctions between labor, corporeality, intimacy, family life, and mobility. Mankekar and Gupta show how workers’ daily lives and imaginings of the future point to the relationships between futurity, capital, and technology as well as futurity’s imbrications with contemporary racial capitalism. In so doing, the authors insist on the transformative potential of futurity even in conditions of extreme precarity.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 328
ISBN-13: 9781478031536
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1478031530
Kategori: Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier
Udg. Dato: 5 maj 2025
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 5 maj 2025
Forfatter(e): Akhil Gupta, Purnima Mankekar
Forfatter(e) Akhil Gupta, Purnima Mankekar

Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier

ISBN-13 9781478031536

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 328

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 5 maj 2025

Oplagsdato 5 maj 2025

Forlag Duke University Press

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