Experimental times: startup capitalism and feminist futures in India.
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Experimental times: startup capitalism and feminist futures in India
Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. This talk is based on the book and journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the dreams of a "Startup India" knitted through office work, at networking meetings and urban festivals, and across sites of leisure in the city. Tracking techno-futures that involve automation and impending precarity, I detail the everyday forms of experimentation, care, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in India's current economy.
Speaker bio: Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies from Emory University and research and teaching interests in transnational feminisms, capitalist spaces and temporalities, and labor and technology in the South.
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- Hemangini Gupta, University of Edinburgh
Location
Violet Laidlaw RoomChrystal Macmillan Building, The University of Edinburgh